Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘Other Peoples Stuff’ Category
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Tuesday, December 4th, 2018Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald – lovely costume and set design, some really good special effects, can’t fault the cast. So its a shame the story was so laden with exposition, foreshadowing the existing films and random happenings. Also once you’ve we’ve been told its in Paris you don’t have to be quite so […]
London December 2018
Sunday, December 2nd, 2018Quick summary of stuff I went to in London… Cats on the Page (Free British Libarary) exhibition about fictional cats in books by various theme. Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War (££ British Libarary) exhibition with lots of books and some other shiny stuff like gold jewellery from hoards Tate Britain Winter Commission by Monster Chetwynd […]
Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho Talk at Tate Liverpool
Wednesday, October 24th, 2018Went to a talk from Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho at Tate Liverpool tonight. I’ve not had a chance to see their exhibition, Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho: News from Nowhere, at Tate Liverpool yet Interesting to hear how they collaborate with each other and bring in experts in fields such as architecture, technology and fashion to […]
Serpentine Pavilion 2017 by Francis Kéré’s
Wednesday, July 26th, 2017Just posted a gallery of photographs of this years Serpentine Pavilion by Francis Kéré’s. Unfortunately there was something greasy on my camera lens that I didn’t notice until I loaded the pictures up. Combined with lens flare and many of the pictures were just not very good. I’ve had to pick and choose from those that […]
Robots at Science Museum
Sunday, July 23rd, 2017The last exhibition of my summer trip to London was Robots at Science Museum and after being disappointed by Into the Unknown: a journey through Science Fiction at the Barbican I almost skipped it. I’m glad I didn’t. It starts strong with an exploration of clockwork machines. It dips a tiny bit with a room […]
Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity
Sunday, July 23rd, 2017Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity at Leighton House is an interesting set of works with some really great neo classical pieces. I’d not known Alma-Tadema work before but if you’ve seen any Hollywood biblical epic ever or sword and sandals epic you’ve seen his influence. Gladiator almost lifts whole shots from his paintings. After seeing […]
Breathing Colours
Sunday, July 23rd, 2017Breathing Colours at the Design Museum was a real disappointment. Which is a shame because perception of colour is a fascinating subject. The problem is this exhibition is too much art installation without any deeper framework from science and technology to support it. One little box with three zones you could move objects between to […]
California: Designing Freedom at the Deign Museum
Sunday, July 23rd, 2017The California: Designing Freedom exhibition at the Design Museum looks at design in California since the 1950s. It places counterculture at the heart of the story and looks at its impact on design from skateboards, the pocket calculator, transport, pong, Google, the Gay Pride flag, Apple, Blade Runner, Easy Rider, LSD tabs, and graphic design […]
Cartier in Motion at the Design Museum
Sunday, July 23rd, 2017Of the three exhibitions I caught at the Design Museum this was my favourite and I didn’t even know it was on till I arrived and the added bonus was it was free. I can’t say I knew a lot about Cartier before the exhibition. Cartier in Motion benefits a lot from telling a coherent […]
Fahrelnissa Zeid at Tate Modern
Sunday, July 9th, 2017Fahrelnissa Zeid’s exhibition at Tate Modern with beautiful kaleidoscope paintings that are ornate, colourful abstracts on a scale that really can’t be reproduced as a postcard or print. In that they reminded me of the Sonia Delunay exhibition at Tate Modern in 2015. I was struck that both of these women were made exiles by […]