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The black hole of Southwark

October 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Life

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. 

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Shibboleth

October 11th, 2007 · No Comments · Life

There have been seven previous installations in the Tate Modern’s Unilever exhibitions series, of which I have seen four and enjoyed them all to various extents. When I first heard about the new one (Shibboleth by Doris Salcedo) I had a real sense of anti-climax.
The Turbine Hall is a brilliant, magnificent space and I [...]

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Well Hung

November 21st, 2006 · No Comments · Life

Last week’s concluding part of Tim Marlow’s guide to the re-hang at the Tate Modern prompted me to go and have a look, as I realised that I had not actually been in the galleries since the re-hang. The last couple of times I went to the place I was looking at the building, [...]

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What I learned today

November 20th, 2006 · No Comments · Life

The artist Piet Modrian did not use the colour green in his paintings. He would not even allow the colour green in his house.
The artist Thomas Schütt is well enough known to have a whole room full of his stuff at the Tate Modern, yet he is too obscure to get even a passing mention [...]

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Carsten Holler

October 9th, 2006 · No Comments · Life

If it is not pouring with rain on Tuesday, I know where I am going to go at lunch time!
The new installation at the Tate Modern opens on Tuesday and appears to be a series of slides, offering the chance to be highbrow and infantile simultaneously.

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Tate Modern

May 10th, 2006 · No Comments · Life

As it was a pleasant sunny day today I went for a lunchtime stroll up to the Tate Modern and back.
There is a strange atmosphere there at the moment. For a start half the galleries are closed while they reorganise everything. I’m not 100% certain, but I think they are getting away from grouping works [...]

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Yes, but is it art?

November 9th, 2005 · No Comments · Life

Today I occupied my lunch hour with a walk to the Tate Modern so I could see the new installation in the turbine hall – Embankment by Rachel Whiteread.
I have to say that I was a bit disappointed by it. Maybe it was spoiled for me by having seen so many photographs of [...]

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