To South Kensington tube station and walk down Exhibition Road and past the swarms of eager kids and excited young parents heading off to see the dinosaurs, steam engines, inter-active computer displays and other marvels in the Science and Natural History Museums. Turning right into Cromwell Road the demographic starts to age a little and … Continued
Down to Green Park tube station and stroll along Piccadilly to get to the Royal Academy where, as I turn into Burlington Gardens, I can see the barricades are up, red flags are flying and the swirling mob of sans-culottes are shouting slogans and trying to topple the elegant statue of El Presidente Joshua Reynolds. … Continued
To Pimlico and Tate Britain for the big David Hockney retrospective exhibition that’s been timed to coincide with the artist’s 80th birthday that falls later in the year. In fact, the show will have moved on from London by the time that Hockney actually lights the candles on his celebratory cake in July, having been … Continued
It’s another chilly day in London town and flecks of rain are half-heartedly pattering down as I exit from Oxford Circus tube station and make my speedy walk along the road to get to Annely Juda Fine Art. Here the upper gallery has been given over to Richard Wilson, the artist responsible for the overall … Continued
There seems to be some kind of engineering works being performed on the Jubilee and Metropolitan lines so, instead of getting the tube straight to Finchley Road, I consult my very useful Citymapper app and follow its advice to take the number 13 bus, disembarking at the stop just past the Finchley-Frognal overground station and … Continued
To Charing Cross tube station and manage to get the right exit to emerge into the crisp, chilly light of Trafalgar Square. The usual crowd of tourists is milling about listening to some hapless busker wail his plaintive song and looking with bemused curiosity at the man who chalks copies of flags of the world … Continued
To High Street Kensington tube station and then take the ten minute walk down to what used to be the Commonwealth Institute building but has now been completely gutted, renovated, refurbished, rebranded and reopened as the new venue for the Design Museum, which had formerly been languishing somewhere down in docklands, or thereabouts. And I … Continued
And so the new year begins with an icy blast that, according to the daily Metro freesheet, has taken the trouble to come all the way over from the chilly Canadian tundra especially to meet me as I exit from Oxford Circus tube station. It’s accompanied by a light smattering of sleety, slushy, half-baked snow-like … Continued
Go back to take another look at the Rauschenberg retrospective at Tate Modern and, despite having had quite a few days to mull it over, I have to confess that I’m still a bit fuzzy as to my reactions to the exhibition. In fact, the only thing I can say for certain about the show … Continued
It’s rare that I ever manage to go out on one of my weekly art rambles and then order my thoughts sufficiently to be able to return home, write up the log and then post the results out into the wide world of the webospheric ether all on the same day. Nevertheless, in order to … Continued