Exhibitions for Expotitions

I need to sit down again and update this, and I'm 11 days late, but,hey, this is a public service not a job. I'm still hoping to get to London to do the two exhibitions which close tomorrow but I doubt I will. I really, really should.


Closes September 2010

• * 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 October 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

Closes After November 2010

• Salvator Rosa (1615-1673): Bandits, Wilderness and Magic 15/09/2010-28/11/2010 Dulwich Picture Gallery [I am semitempted by this]
• 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

Resolutions Revisited: August

I appear to have forgotten to do this for July. Ooops.


Ah well.

( That To Read List )

I'm cheating on Gravity's Rainbow - I have 80 pages to go, and coffee to drink this am. Is it just me, or does this look doable? The madness sets in.

Drum roll:

91200 / 120000 words. 76% done!

I've done a little bit of trimming, as the chapters are still coming in long even after losing a whole chapter, so I have written more than that would suggest. There's a fluidity created by the bibliography, so I'm not doing deep trimming yet. But there are some stark choices when I realise that I only have 900 words for Doctor Who, 700 for Blake's Seven and I still have to deal with Anderson (I've squeezed in an obscure series, if only because it has a character named Blake... I am still convinced there is a link from William to Roj, but I haven't spotted it yet.) Darling of the Month: "The UNIT narratives provided Britain with a role in world affairs without anyone having to go overseas (although occasionally they did get to leave the planet)."

Meanwhile I will have to write up the Leuven paper for the collection, discover whether I'm still doing another chapter for a new companion and need to sort out some comedy research.

Into deeper time: there is a potential book contract for next year if I sit down and do a proposal (next week?) and I appear to have had the idea for the next book, something which has been hovering around my head since about 2003, and which is not on comedy. If I'm smart I'll work out how to do articles which would be the building blocks of it, although I can see how the so-what may well come into play for sections. I definitely need to sit down and down a comedy article. Meanwhile I spy three areas that would repay articles from the seventies materials unused. No rest for the idle.