Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘Exhibition’ Category
The Open Eye Gallery: Painted Photographs
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012I went to see the Painted Photographs exhibition at the Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool today of photographs that have been retouched for use on TV and in the Press. Due to my own stupidity and incompetence I never made it to the Open Eye Gallery before its new venue so I can’t compare it […]
Brit Insurance Design of the Year 2011
Thursday, August 4th, 2011I really enjoyed visiting the Design Museum, London, last year so I was pleased I managed to get down to London to see the Brit Insurance Design of the Year 2011 a few weekends ago. I’ve picked out a few of my favourite entries in the gallery. I didn’t get a picture of Margaret Howell […]
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011Last weekend I took myself to London to throw myself round a series of exhibitions. One of the highlights was going to see the 2011 Pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens by Peter Zumthor. I’d only seen shots of the outside and have to admit I was a bit concerned it was going […]
Paul Trevor – Like you’ve Never Been Away
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011In a smaller gallery next to the Art in Revolution: Liverpool 1911 is an exhibition of black and white photographs by Paul Trevor of inner city Liverpool taken in 1975. The exhibition features a sequence of stunning images that reflect both the poverty and material decay that afflicted inner city life in the 1970s. Most […]
Art in Revolution: Liverpool 1911
Thursday, July 7th, 2011The Art in Revolution: Liverpool 1911 exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery celebrates the centenary of the 1911 exhibition of Post-Impressionist works and local avant-garde artists at the Bluecoat (The Sandon Studios Society exhibition of Modern Art including work by the Post-Impressionists). The breadth of styles is breath-taking – there are works by van Gogh, Gauguin […]
The Cartoon Museum: Ink and the Bottle and The Wellcome Trust: High Society
Saturday, November 27th, 2010On my way to Dragon meet 2010 in London I decided to visit a couple of exhibitions on the way by chance both had a similar theme – Ink and the Bottle at the The Cartoon Museum and High Society at The Wellcome Collection. The Cartoon Museum: Ink and the Bottle Not the largest museum […]
The magical Temple of a Thousand Bells
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010I walked from work to Liverpool’s Anglican cathedral to see Laura Belém’s Temple of a Thousand Bells which is in the Oratory in St James’ Cemetary as part of the Liverpool Biennial 2010. The work consists of a thousand hand-blown glass bells suspended on nylon string through a gently glowing ceiling. An 8 minute polyphonic piece of music by Fernando Rocha including many different bell sounds fills the room. Really beautiful work. I just wish I’d had more than fifteen minutes to experience it.
Every Shop Window is a Soap Box, 2010
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010Renshaw Street in Liverpool has been the home of Rapid Hardware all the time I’ve lived here. It took up so many of the shops along one side of the street that it was commonly known as Rapid Hardware Street. When they moved into the old George Henry Lee’s / John Lewis building it left […]
Do Ho Suh's Between, Liverpool
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010Do Ho Suh’s Between is one of the larger pieces in the Liverpool Biennial 2010. Its on a slightly smaller scale to Rotating Yates’s Wine Lodge Building but only just. I’ve seen quite a few similar photographs to the one above on newspaper websites. I decided to take a closer look because the level of […]
Nottingham Contemporary
Saturday, October 2nd, 2010I went to Nottingham Contemporary on the second leg of my holiday. The building is very striking. The Diane Arbus and Gert and Uwe Tobias exhibitions were both interesting. What I really liked was the Small Collections Room. Changing collections in four cabinets with draws filled with art that you can open and discover whats […]