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Shadows on the wall at the Cornelia Parker show at @tate Britain, which is really good - proof that conceptual art can be warmly engaging and even entertaining. (Her voice even comes through in the information panels, which are pitch perfect for the show - and how many exhibitions can you say that about?!)
#tate #tatebritain #corneliaparker #exhibition #artexhibition #art #contemporaryart #london #londongallery #londongalleries #londonmuseum #museum #conceptualart #artwriting (at Tate Britain)
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A groovy little gem discovered at @tate Britain last week. The Drury Lane Arts Lab was where David Bowie used to brush up his mime act and John Lennon and Yoko Ono exhibited their first collaborative artwork. It’s probably a chippy now.
#design #logo #typograohy #1960s #sixties #60s #artslab #drurylane #london #johnlennon #yokoono #davidbowie #fishandchips #londongallery #londongalleries #groovy #swingingsixties (at Drury Lane)
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Some highlights from the Sickert show at @tate Britain. It’s a good show and well put together - particularly when showing how much he learned from Degas and Whistler. And yet Sickert never really had a Number One hit, did he? He maybe had three or four Top 10s, a dozen or so in the mid to low Top 40s, and apart from the rest dropping briefly in and out of the Top 100 that was about it. Is he therefore the Ultravox of British art, with ‘Ennui’ as his ‘Vienna’? And if so, who is the Joe Dolce Music Theatre? Harold Gilman? #stretchedmetaphors #top10 #ukcharts #sickert #waltersickert #tate #tatebritain #londongallery #londonmuseum #londongalleries #londonmuseums #ultravox #joedolce #80spop #joedolcemusictheatre #onehitwonder #shaddupyouface #britishart #haroldgilman (at Tate Britain)
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Ephemera-a-gogo at the Surrealism Without Borders show at @tate Modern. Surrealists loved a bit of short-run self-published verbiage. Because of course you can change the whole world’s consciousness with words, as long as you elephant-piano-egg-beach-eyelashes-thimble-dromedary hard enough at the typewriter.
#surrealism #tate #tatemodern #art #artmuseum #london #surrealismwithoutborders #surrealist #gallery #exhibition #londongalleries #melvynbragg #southbankshow #londongallery #writing #nonsequitur #ephemera #pamphlet (at Tate Modern)
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A few highlights from the Surrealism Without Borders exhibition at Tate Modern, which has an inspiring premise (‘Hey kids, Surrealism wasn’t just a bunch of French dudes doing lots of wobbly anthropomorphic stuff, there were people all round the world doing their own Surrealisms’) and starts off well, but as it goes on it increasingly becomes a lot of people from round the world doing wobbly anthropomorphic stuff just like that bunch of French dudes, and so kinda shoots itself in the foot. Maybe there wasn’t sufficient work available to fully support the thesis, but I suspect it’s more that too narrow an interpretation of Surrealism and its potential methods of deployment was used. Anyway, despite all that it’s still worth seeing and I’m glad I went. Next week on the South Bank Show…
#surrealism #tate #tatemodern #art #artmuseum #london #surrealismwithoutborders #surrealist #gallery #exhibition #londongalleries #melvynbragg #southbankshow #londongallery (at Tate Modern)
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Close-ups of some of the many highlights in the Postwar Modern show at the @barbicancentre art gallery. It’s great, kids! (Images: 1. Nigel Henderson, 2. Alan Davie, 3. Magda Cordell, 4. Lucian ‘call me Lucian’ Freud, 5. Robyn Denny, 6. Francis Bacon, 7. Gillian Ayres #barbican #barbicanartgallery #painting #exhibition #london #londongallery #postwar #postwarmodern #modernart #britishart #nigelhenderson #alandavie #magdacordell #lucianfreud #robyndenny #francisbacon #gillianayres (at Barbican Art Gallery)
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Culture sleeps with the light on.
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#tatemodern #tate #london #londonatnight #londonbynight #bankside #night #nighttime #gallery #londongallery #londongalleries #londonmuseums #museums #iphonephotography (at Tate Modern)
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