To Blackfriars tube station and then across the wide windy bridge en route for Tate Modern. Have a quick rummage around in Marcus Campbell’s second hand art bookshop but there’s nothing there to tempt me today so on I go into the gallery, entering via the Turbine Hall and looking out for the latest installation … Continued
To Oxford Circus tube station again and out among the swirling throngs of seasonal shoppers with their desperate, dazed looks, all eager to celebrate the wonderment of the nativity by pounding the streets in search of the kind of spiritual enrichment that only money can buy. A detour down Dering Street gets me out of … Continued
To Oxford Street tube station and the short walk to get to the Photographers’ Gallery. And it proves to be a good start to the day since, when I reach for my wallet to pay the usual £3 old people’s discounted entry fee to get into the place (full price £4), the gatekeeper points to … Continued
Head back down to Vauxhall tube station, skirt round the side of the MI6 building trying not to draw attention to myself, and then stroll along to Damien Hirst’s gallery in Newport Street which, despite some snarky comments about the design of the place I made in an earlier blog, nevertheless managed to win the … Continued
To Victoria station and on to the Queens’s Gallery and I guess that Christmas must be approaching as there’s a great big fir tree stuck near the entrance. It’s covered in the usual little ornamental lights but, instead of twinkly glass baubles or streams of tinsel hanging from the branches, there are dozens of little … Continued
To Green Park tube station and stop off at Pret a Manger for a refreshingly fizzy elderberry and grape juice drink before exiting out into the drizzling rain and taking a brisk walk along Piccadilly to get to the welcoming shelter of the Royal Academy. Having bitten the bullet and paid the annual members fee … Continued
To Charing Cross tube station and then the short walk across Trafalgar Square to get to the National Gallery, which means passing by the lisper’s nightmare, the famous fourth plinth – the empty one, the one unadorned by any statue of a long-departed royal or long-forgotten military buffer. These days the space comes under the … Continued
Head down to Pimlico again, this time to take a look at the Paul Nash exhibition that’s just opened at Tate Britain. And, having had a moan the other week about the horribly expensive £19 full price ticket to get into the relatively small and unsatisfactory display of Picasso Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, … Continued
Feels like time to catch up on a few shows that are running in galleries at the upper end of the commercial sector which, perhaps unsurprisingly, means going for a walk around some of the posher, dark green bits of the Monopoly map of London. But, before I get to that part of town, I … Continued
To Charing Cross tube station and a short walk to the National Portrait Gallery for the Picasso Portraits exhibition which, I have to say, I’m really rather looking forward to seeing. I suppose, like most people who get interested in Modern Art, I’m quite a fan of the little Spanish genius who was so very … Continued