Resolutions Revisited: July

I have been reading, just not the books on this list... Three down. I'm hoping two days in Chichester will help the count, but actually four of those are Octavia Butler's work, not on the list...

Reading list
( cut for sanity )

76200 / 120000 words. 64% done!

Excuse me?

"the copy I read already had international bestseller written across it, which means that not everyone thinks it's a hateful misogynistic book"

Anyone spot a logical flaw in Andrew Motion's reasoning?

Another Early Night

Just finished Tuesday's Guardian cryptic. I am a doofus.

He's a What?

Tom Lehrer said he gave up satire when Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize, bring unable to compete with the absurdity of the real world.

I've just had one of those moments.


Ye gods.

Exhibitions for Expotitions

Closes August 2010

• * Henry Moore 24/2/2010-15/8/2010 Tate Britain Recommended
• The Wyeth Family: Three Generations of American Art 9/6/2010-22/8/2010 Dulwich
• Summer Exhibition 2010 14/6/2010-22/8/2010 RAA
• Picasso: Peace and Freedom 21/5/2010-30/8/2010 Tate Liverpool
• Rineke Dijkstra: I See a Woman Crying 30/4/2010-30/8/2010 Tate Liverpool

Closes September 2010

• Urban Africa: David Adjaye 31/3/2010-5/9/2010 Design Museum
• * Rude Britannica: British Comic Art 9/6/2010-5/9/2010 Tate Britain
• Francis Alys 15/6/2010-5/9/2010 Tate Modern
• Ernesto Neto 19/6/2010-5/9/2010 Hayward Gallery
• The New Decor 19/6/2010-5/9/2010 Hayward Gallery
• * Surrealism in Sussex 29/5/2010-12/9/2010 Pallant House, Chichester
• * Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries 30/6/2010-12/9/2010 National Gallery
• The Surreal House 10/6/2010-12/9/2010 Barbican
• John Bock 10/6/2010-12/9/2010 Barbican
• Kati Horna: The European Years 16/6/2010-12/9/2010 Pallant House, Chichester
• * Surreal Friends: Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo and Kati Horna 19/6/2010-12/9/2010 Pallant House, Chichester
• Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera 28/5/2010-19/9/2010 Tate Modern
• The Courtauld Collects! 20 Years of Acquisitions 17/6/2010-19/9/2010
• BP Portrait Award 2010 24/6/2010-19/9/2010 National Portrait Gallery
• Walk in the Park: Images of the South Downs 1/5/2010-26/9/2010 Towner Gallery, Eastbourne
• Sargent and the Sea 10/7/2010-26/9/2010 RAA
• Lily van der Stokker 15/5/2010-26/9/2010 Tate Liverpool
• Tate Collection Display: The Languages of Modernism 15/5/2010-26/9/2010 Tate St Ives

Closes After September 2010

• Frederick Cayley Robinson: Acts of Mercy 14/7/2010-17/10/2010 National Gallery
• Camille Silvy, Photographer of Modern Life, 1834 - 1910 15/7/2010-24/10/2010 National Portrait Galley
• Salvator Rosa (1615-1673): Bandits, Wilderness and Magic 15/09/2010-28/11/2010 Dulwich Picture Gallery
• Tate Britain Duveens Commission 2010 28/11/2010 Tate Britain
• Turner Prize 2010 5/10/2010-2/1/2011 Tate Britain
• Move: Choreographing You 13/10/2010-3/1/2011 Hayward Gallery
• Peter Lanyon 9/9/2010-6/1/2011 Tate St Ives
• Rachel Whiteread: Drawings 15/9/2010-16/1/2011 Tate Britain
• Venice: Canaletto and his Rivals 13/10/2010-16/1/2011 National Gallery
• Cezanne's Card Players 21/10/2010-16/1/2011 Courtauld Institute
• * Eadweard Muybridge 15/9/2010-16/1/2011 Tate Britain
• Gaughin 30/9/2010-16/1/2011 Tate Modern
• Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes 1900-1939 18/9/2010-16/1/2011 V&A
• Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion 15/10/2010-16/2/2011 Barbican
• Nam June Paik 17/12/10-13/3/2011 Tate Liverpool
• Love, Magic and Power 10/9/2011-8/1/2012 V&A
• Toulouse-Lautrec And Jane Avril 16/6/2011-18/9/2011 Courtauld Institute
• Postmodernism 8/10/2011-15/1/2012 V&A Rooms 38 and 39, and North Court
• Aestheticism: Beauty in Art and Design 1860-1900 4/7/2011-// V&A
• Mondrian || Nicholson: In Parallel February – May 2012 Courtauld Institute
• 100 Years of Hollywood Costume: Virgins and Vamps, Saints and sinners (TBC) 4/2013-7/2013

Sidetracked...

... again.