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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... ) -
Still Not Dead, Honest
This summer I have a) finished a book and b) not yet finished a book. The fact that that was not "finished two books" means that the paper I was going to write for the Weird Council conference had not been written when I left home on Thursday. Nor, because mine host got back from work at 5.30 rather than 6.30, was it written by 6.30 on Thursday. ( Read more... ) -
Another Itinerararrarararrary
Battersea, Bethnel Green, Blackheath, Borough Market, Camberwell, Camden and Kentish Town, central Camden, E10, not far from the River Lea, Greenwich, Hackney, Herne Hill, Highgate, Ilford, Kensal Rise, Kew Gardens, Leyton, Stamford Brook, Tottenham, Twickenham, Westfield Stratford City and Wimbledon. -
And it doesn't even mention that goal...
Foot pain retreated enough this morning to allow me to walk to West station and the 8.07 to London Bridge - truly London will be fab when they've finished building it - and a walk to Tate Modern. I'd done the Alighiero Boetti and Yayoi Kusama last Sunday, finding them both very rich and fecund artists, the Kusama beng the more interesting of the ( Read more... ) -
Birmingham
Having done much walking of late, I've felt very inspired by (and jealous of) the artist Hamish Fulton, who has said "If I do not walk, I cannot make a work of art", and lives round these parts. Most of his art are posters (or, rather, large areas of paint with vinyl lettering) recording walks - from coast to coast, from source to sea, across ( Read more... ) -
Updating
It's been a busy couple of weeks - a couple of trips to St Albans, one of them for a conference, a day trip to Birmingham over Easter to see the Hamish Fulton exhibition, a number of days in St Ives and a day in London, to both Tates and the V&A, with much walking. Hope to write some of this up, but time thus far forbids. -
2012 Reading I-V
I Philip K. Dick, The Cosmic Puppets.
II Philip K. Dick, Humpty Dumpty in Oakland
III Philip K. Dick, Mary and the Giant
IV Philip K. Dick, The Broken Bubble
Beginning of a reread of the oeuvre, which I may do over, as I've been distracted. Some really odd swerves of prose in The Broken Bubble, and I wonder what the novels would have been like if ( Read more... ) -
Exhibitions for Expotitions
As always these are provided as much for my own benefit and interest as anyone else's - check opening times and venues before travelling; additions, suggestions, corrections and company welcome. I also have a Google Calendar which I add to. Exhibitions in red are on now (in theory).
ETA:- Rothko in Britain 9-Sep-2011 26-Feb-2012 Whitechapel Gallery ( Read more... )