Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘London’ Category
Almost Wordless Wednesday 43
Wednesday, February 6th, 2019Finally put together my annual panorama taken from the balcony of the members bar at Tate Modern from July 2018
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 […]
St Paul’s from Queens Head Passage
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017Robots 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 […]
Tate Modern Panorama 2017
Wednesday, July 19th, 2017This year’s view of London from the Tate Modern Member’s Bar balcony. You can see the panoramas from Tate Modern 2014, 2015 and 2016 on a new page I’ve added to my pictures pages.
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 […]