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Politics
I've been unusually politically engaged this time round -- faced with a local slate of Conservative (incumbent), Lib Dem, Labour, UKIP, Green and Socialist Party of Great Britain, I went to the local hustings ( Read more... ) -
I aint ded
Oh look, I haven't posted here in nine months. I've been having trouble logging on at home, then wifi died on the Mac and I've not really had time to follow through ( Read more... ) -
That Ol' Cognitive Estrangement Feeling
I'd only ever been to Somerset House on trips to the Courtauld Collection (free and expedited entry with Art Fund membership - one of several thousand reasons to get a membership), but at some point I'd noticed a photography exhibition there for free. I think I'd spotted a review or something, and then maybe spotted a poster there, but I've now ( Read more... ) -
In Dreams
I have the Explicable Travel Anxiety Dream (sometimes buses, mostly trains, rarely cars, most frequently getting across London by Underground), sometimes with the Explicable Second Hand Bookshop Reverie, the Explicable Unprepared Teaching Dream (campuses segueing into cinemas, theatres, underground foyers, conventions, conferences) and the ( Read more... ) -
Sigh
You'd think, being tired, I wouldn't be waking at 5.30 am. Sigh. And that in the gap before 10 I could get some sleep.
So today I've fixed the front door lock for now, edited what I think is the fifth set of proofs of a review, written another review, and had a mysterious three hour siesta that included hearing most of a Philip Palmer radio play. -
What I Did On My Holidays
Back about three four hours ago from day two of the exhibition in Broadstairs of the photos I took circumambulating Thanet, all thirty miles of it. Trying to avoid going to bed too early ( Read more... ) -
Many Hands
Saturday I got up at daft o'clock to celebrate the 25th anniversary of my driving test - I caught the 6.00am train to Victoria, breakfasted in the Regency Cafe and was the first person through the doors of the Lowry exhibition. Imagine! Having the whole exhibition to yourself! After doing something similar for Lichtenstein and Hirst, I'd imagine ( Read more... ) -
Meanwhile...
Is that really two months since the last post?
It has been sixty days of reading and writing and failing to sleep and failing to wake up.
There has been art - Lichtenstein, Frink, Riley, Hodgkin - and photography, with a picture on show at the Sidney Cooper. There are photosThere has been beer. On the one hand too much. On the other hand not ( Read more... ) -
Exhibitions for Expotitions - ending March 2013
- * Eastbourne: Towner "Bon hiver: A journey through a Winter Landscape" (1 Dec 2012-1 Mar 2013) Website
- London: Whitechapel Gallery "Aspen Magazine: 1965-1971" (11 Sep 2012-3 Mar 2013) Website
- London: Barbican "Random International: Rain Room" (4 Oct 2012-3 Mar 2013) Website
- * London: V&A "Halfway to Paradise: Photographs by Harry Hammond" (13 Oct ( Read more... )
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"Modern" Opera
I recall a British company who did modern translations (ie rude) of operas, but I can't for the life of me remember their name. London Mozart Players? English Opera? I think it was semi-professional, and it was either the Purcell Room or BAC if I ever saw them (which I think he did).
Tamaranth should remember...