Head over to Barbican tube station and then take the short walk down the road and up the ugly concrete walkway to get to the Museum of London which is still guarded by that horse with the rather silly looking roundels stuck to its sides. Somewhere on my travels I’ve seen adverts promoting a photography … Continued
Over to Lancaster Gate tube station and then cross the road to get into Kensington Gardens which is gradually filling up with joggers, dog walkers, wandering tourists and happy squabbling families, all out enjoying the sticky summer heat. Apparently it’s even hotter eighteen hundred miles away at the Nizhny Novgorod Stadium where the youthful heroes … Continued
To Charing Cross tube station and exit into Trafalgar Square to take a look at the latest lump of sculpture that’s been plonked down on to that most famous of all transient artistic staging posts: the so-called fourth plinth. Rather like the annual commission to fill the Tate’s Turbine Hall, this is another great potential … Continued
Exit the tube at Piccadilly and the sun seems to be in a beneficent mood as it smiles sweetly down on the parading pates below. There’s a bright azure blue sky flecked with a few fluffy white clouds above and a pleasant light breeze is helping to waft me along the road. The climatical ambience … Continued
Down to Waterloo tube station and then with fingers firmly crossed head over to the Hayward Gallery. Well, after being closed for a couple of years and spending several million pounds on a renovative refurb and revamp that barely altered the building in any discernable way, Andreas Gursky’s inaugural photo show was then all a … Continued
Turning away from Green Park tube station and heading off down St James Street, the sky turns an ominously darker shade of grey and I sense that the humidity quotient of the cloudy vaporous blanket precariously positioned in the tropospherical regions above the capital has just edged up a notch. Maybe it’s because the crepuscular … Continued
Head down to Piccadilly and then along to the Royal Academy which is celebrating its 250th anniversary year by undergoing a bit of an architectural spring clean and tidy up. I don’t think there have been any actual extensions or additions made to the basic structure of the mighty Burlington House building but various new … Continued
After the Parisian exertions and provincial excursions of the past few weeks of blogs, it feels like time to return to the capital and go for a quick catch-up wander around to see what’s happening cityside. And so, with no particular plan in mind, I get out the tube at Green Park and walk up … Continued
Last week’s blog charted my day trip out to take look round Oxford and so, by a rather pleasing piece of not entirely serendipitous symmetry, today I find myself heading out to that other twin peak of pedagogic promulgation – Cambridge. I’ve been meaning to come here for a while to check out the recent … Continued
After the last couple of Francophiliastical blogs I’m now returned to the bosom of our own dear little sceptered isle set in its silver sea but still feeling in fairly touristic mood so decide to venture outside the confines of the capital and head off for a day trip to Oxford. I suppose I tend … Continued