Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘London’ Category
A few London Exhibitions
Sunday, July 13th, 2014Took a weekend trip to London. Here’s a quick round up of the exhibitions I went to. All the exhibitions have an entrance fee except where I’ve said it’s free. Useful + Beautiful At the Geffrye Museum – a small, single room exhibition including some interesting furnishings created in the last few years. My first […]
Nearly Wordless Wednesday 28
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014Nearly Wordless Wednesday 27
Wednesday, April 16th, 2014Not Quite Wordless Wednesday 26
Wednesday, April 9th, 2014Hello My Name is Paul Smith at the Design Museum
Monday, April 7th, 2014The Paul Smith exhibition at the Design Museum has been running for a while and will be on till June. As retrospectives of the work of designers go its good but the balance is a bit process heavy. The entrance is through a minimalist reconstruction of Smith’s first shop. Following the exhibition round clockwise we […]
Beautiful Science: Picturing Data, Inspiring Insight at the British Library
Sunday, April 6th, 2014This free exhibition at the British Library looks at the art and science of infographics. Rather than taking a very broad approach, cherry picking a few examples from every branch of science it focuses on three main areas: health, biology and meteorology. Each features both historically important examples and modern works. John Snow’s On the […]
Nearly Wordless Wednesday 25: The Return
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014After a short break Nearly Wordless Wednesday Returns… This shot was pretty much a happy accident – other than cropping it and changing to black and white. I’d left camera in a special mode I rarely use last year so after a 4 second delay it auto shot a dozen pictures. This is the only […]
Ruin Lust at Tate Britain
Tuesday, April 1st, 2014Ruin Lust seemed like an interesting concept for an exhibition – a survey of art focusing on ruins. It’s an interesting exhibition looking at ruins in painting, drawing and photography along with (to a lesser degree) film, sculpture and literature. The variety of ruins featured runs from castles to abbeys to imagined vistas of destroyed […]