Crash and William Egglestone

I had a cunning plan - I needed to go to two exhibitions in North London; I would use the HST. All I can say is that I am very enamoured of the service, but it only gets me to London 10 minutes earlier than the slow train is I want the first cheap train of the day, for £3 more (weekends is different, natch). But it is now busy.

There was work related stuff to do, so I hid in the AMT and used St Pancras's wifi* and tried to email people. Blackboard doesn't seem to be a fan of Firefox. Sigh.

A bit later than planned, I went to the Gagosian on Britannia St, where a bouncer opens the door for you.



( Crash: Homage to J.G. Ballard )

I was sidetracked on the way to Wharf Road by a fractured reality,



and spent rather too long walking to there. I should have caught a bus but I needed a pee and needed food (and needed my Oyster topping up, it turns out), and it was all failing to happen. I noted a drive-in McDonalds, but foolishly I went to the Victoria Miro gallery first. I mean, they must have a toilet, yes?

( William Eggleston 15 January-27 February 2010 )

And so, inspired, I dashed to McD's, and it was a close run thing as to whether bladder explosion or starvation would get me first. I actually enjoyed the burger - my first in three years I suspect.

I walked back to Angel - after some admiration of the ( wharf )

and decided I had time to go down to Charing Cross Road to pick up more Wordsworth horror classics (two more women, a Howard, one other) and then back to St P's. I didn't really have time - the Picadilly line was delayed, so I needed to change there and back. I caught the HST with a minute to spare, but felt smelly and sweaty all the way home.

Exhibitions for Expotitions

I've let this get a little out of date - I need to check various places again. I have a Google Calendar which I can give people access to.

Check with venue before travelling - exhibitions get cancelled or renamed. I cannot speak to cost of entry but recommend joining the Art Fund.

These are sorted by order of closure - it's a see now before it shuts aide memoire. Red items are running now. Starred events are ones I really want to see.

Closes in March 2010

• Points of View: Capturing the 19th century in photographs 30/10/2009-7/3/2010 British Library
  
• Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams 18/11/2009-9/3/2010 Design Museum
  
• Ergonomics: Real Design 18/11/2009-9/3/2010 Design Museum
  
• * British Council Collection: Thresholds 9/1/2010-12/3/2010 Whitechapel
  
• * I shake you by the hand, comrade Bacon: British Art Abroad 19/12/2009-14/3/2010 Whitechapel
  
• The Rise of Women Artists 23/10/2009-14/3/2010 Liverpool Walker Gallery
  
• Richard Grayson 16/1/2010-14/3/2010 De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea
  
• Robert Mapplethorpe Artist Rooms 19/12/2009- Sheffield-Graves Art Gallery
  
• Mark Rothko: The Seagram Murals 2/10/2009-21/3/2010 Tate Liverpool
  
• Dark Monarch 23/1/2010-21/3/2010 Towner, Eastbourne
  

Closes in April 2010

• The Unilever Series: Miroslaw Balka 13/10/2009-5/4/2010 Tate Modern
  
• A Different View 9/9/2009-11/4/2010 Towner, Eastbourne
  
• Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh 21/1/2010-11/4/2010 Whitechapel
  
• Deutsch Borse Photography Prize 12/2/2010-17/4/2010 Photographers Gallery
  
• Charly Nijensohn and Nova Paul 21/1/2010-18/4/2010 Whitechapel
  
• The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters 23/1/2010-18/4/2010 Royal Academy of Arts
  
• Afro-Modernism: Journeys through the Black Atlantic 21/1/2010-25/4/2010 Tate Liverpool
  

( Later Exhibitions )