Must be time for another trip up to London – the Tate Modern have unveiled the latest in the Unilever series of artworks for the Turbine Hall: How It Is by Miroslaw Balka.
Entries Tagged as 'Art'
Modern faddy nonsense
October 3rd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Life
Sky Arts’ weekly round-up of the week in Trafalgar Square was a classic this week. One of the guests in the studio was Brian Sewell. I have always thought he is a bit of a cock but I have changed my mind now and revised my opinion of him downwards.
Lucky escape for the Trafalgar Square crowds
September 1st, 2009 · 3 Comments · Life
I received the email today that told me I was not picked for the final tranche of people to take their place on the 4th plinth as part of Antony Gormley’s One & Other. While I am a little disappointed, that is far outweighed by relief. I have seen quite a few of the past [...]
Local boy on the plinth
August 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Life
I was browsing through the One & Other web site today, looking for the video of the bloke who did a Tony Hancock impersonation. I didn’t find him, but I did find ‘bobnoxious‘ who looked very familiar… it is indeed a keen cyclist and photographer from Crawley. Never met him, but he is one of [...]
One & Other
August 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Life
I watched the Sky Arts roundup of this week’s plinth action tonight because Andrew said there was a good chance of his Thriller dance being on there if they could clear the music rights. It looks like they couldn’t because he was nowhere to be seen. On the plus side, Clive Anderson’s place was taken [...]
More plinthness
August 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
A few thoughts about the One & Other project:
I have been looking at a few of the archives of plinthers and it occurs to me that the whole thing has the potential to be like a bite-sized Big Brother. This is not a bad thing… imagine being in Big Brother. It goes on for months [...]
Zombies in Trafalgar Square
August 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
This afternoon I made the short journey up to London to go and see Andrew do his thing in Trafalgar Square as part of Anthony Gormley’s One & Other project.
I went for several reasons: to support Andrew, to support a good cause, to get some use out of my cameras, and because… well I have [...]
Partially disembowelled
July 31st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
Just noticed that the work of art featured today on the Rijkswidget is A dog and a cat near a partially disembowelled deer by Jan Baptist Weenix. Nice. Weenix obviously took the Ronseal approach to naming paintings.
(Also this is a second test. If all goes well, this one will not be posted to Twitter)
Tags: Art
A plinth among men!
July 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Life
A little while back I mentioned how Andrew from Wongablog was going to be appearing on the 4th plinth in Trafalgar Square as part of Antony Gormley’s One & Other project. I was a bit jealous about that, especially as he got allocated a prime slot (4pm on a Sunday) but I’m now hoping that [...]
Not meeting new friends
July 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Politics
On Sunday I went up to London for the day. The official reason was to meet up with some other Labour activists, bloggers and general good-eggs but I made sure I got there early so I could do some sight-seeing and visiting of old haunts. I think it is the first time I have been [...]
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