please empty your brain below
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Ha, ha. I don't know why you weren't more specific about when this exhibition ends which I believe is noon today. You got me up to the Untitled Artist...
Ken | 01.04.18 - 7:07 a.m. | #
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Frank Picks legacy lives on.
DannyR | 01.04.18 - 7:12 a.m. | #
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Thanks for the publicity...
bill poster | 01.04.18 - 7:13 a.m. | #
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Nicely done DG, happy Easter too.
John DLC | 01.04.18 - 7:40 a.m. | #
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ART ON THE UNDERGROUND
by W.T.McGonagall
To London Town I must away
To see
The art that's on display
And find
The platform of the Underground
Where these great works
Are to be found.
Alas! I cannot see this treat
At the
Station after Great Portland Street
For the
Orange Army do not shirk
My line's block with
Planned Engineering Work.
W.T.McGonagall | 01.04.18 - 8:03 a.m. | #
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The artist has been fascinated by the traditional understanding of meaning. What starts out as triumph soon becomes corrupted into a carnival of defeat, leaving only a sense of dread and the inevitability of a new synthesis.
As shifting forms become clarified through random and diverse practice, the viewer is left with a hymn to the possibilities of our condition.
see http://artybollocks.com/
see
Not arty enough for you?
mikeS | 01.04.18 - 8:04 a.m. | #
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Oh yeah, April The First! 😂😂😂. Nice try. 😉
Jo W | 01.04.18 - 8:08 a.m. | #
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No wonder you are a shoe in for the Elisabeth Line branding partner
Richard | 01.04.18 - 8:17 a.m. | #
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Tee-hee.
B | 01.04.18 - 8:25 a.m. | #
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Eggcellent work DG. Trounces Ian Visit's limestone caverns.
Phil | 01.04.18 - 8:41 a.m. | #
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I think the artist may be Scandinavian abstract specialist Olaf Priol whose work I admire every Spring.
Christopher Bellew | Homepage | 01.04.18 - 8:42 a.m. | #
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Some time ago I went on "The Lost Tunnels" tour at Euston (see link). It was fascinating to see the remains of wall posters from decades ago.
Tim W | 01.04.18 - 8:58 a.m. | #
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You should have attributed the work to R. Mutt.
Still Anon | 01.04.18 - 9:04 a.m. | #
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How about a nice installation? For preference, they can install an entrance at the other end, that actually connects with Euston.
D9000 | 01.04.18 - 9:12 a.m. | #
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Nice one DG - Have a great Easter
Dave B | 01.04.18 - 10:09 a.m. | #
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Well done! You got me!
I was going to comment that to me it just looks like the scrapings of previous posters!! But then again, I don't get most "art".
Happy Easter Fool's Day.
Cornish Cockney | 01.04.18 - 10:39 a.m. | #
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None of today's photos are doctored.
All those labels are genuinely there.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.04.18 - 12:00 p.m. | #
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(safely after mid-day)
I'd been hoping Euston Square would remain under the radar and escape the current craze for blandification, but like Sloane Square it seems not. I quite like the orange and blue borders, and the signs pointing to "British Rail" are an amusing reminder of a different political era. Is there even one still for "British Railways"?
Andrew S | 01.04.18 - 2:25 p.m. | #
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Is someone cataloguing the gloomy mid-to-late 20th century stations? I suspect Essex Road and Old Street will be with us for a while yet.
martin | 01.04.18 - 2:39 p.m. | #
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I'm in favour of a station remaining 60s grey - but with HS2, Euston Square wouldn't have survived.
As for those descriptive cards being on the walls, more likely an art student with a sense of humour, but the Leeds 13 project 'Going Places' in 1998 is the best example of art / taking the piss.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeds_13
Still Anon | 01.04.18 - 6:37 p.m. | #
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All the labels may be genuinely here now, but at 7am this morning were they genuinely in the feed tray of a printer in the residence of one D. Geezer?
G | 01.04.18 - 6:44 p.m. | #
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Got to love a blog post that includes the word "palimpsest"!
James Webber | 01.04.18 - 7:25 p.m. | #
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I had nothing to do with the labels.
Well done to whoever stuck them on.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 02.04.18 - 12:17 a.m. | #
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I actually hope this exhibition to be genuinely genuine, but even if it is it can only happen on this very day.
A station only managing to be attractive on 1st April is very much Dark humour indeed.
Patrickov | 02.04.18 - 8:53 a.m. | #
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Hahaha! You've 'double got' me then, because now I don't know if this post was an April Fool's joke or not!!!
Cornish Cockney | 02.04.18 - 11:33 a.m. | #
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Such a shame to lose the blue & orange.
It's like the previously mentioned Sloane Square. That had style. The new look doesn't and for an organisation that bangs on about its design heritage it's painful to see.
ap | 02.04.18 - 12:28 p.m. | #
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Euston Sq has always been a problem station, far too small for its modern passenger load and no direct interchange with Euston (main line) or Warren Street.
'We' tried in 1990s to rebuild it but a privatised utility wanted £5m to move their trunk facility, maybe one-third of the station's rebuild budget.
We would have put an entrance as the eastern end with a subway to the LU ticket hall at Euston, and maybe a subway to Warren Street if geology and land ownership permitted.
LU doesn't own the land the station entrances sit in, it has "flying freeholds". Not much will happen to its configuration until 'deals are done'.
Not 'art gallery', just more of the London history which never happened.
Former LU station capacity planner | 02.04.18 - 2:23 p.m. | #
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I seem to be the only one in the universe who likes the 60's grey and is sorry to see so much of it going, even in its natural habitat on the Victoria line.
NickW | Homepage | 04.04.18 - 11:16 p.m. | #
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Update: https://www.1londonblog.uk/2018/04/05/euston-square-the-saga-continues
diamond geezer | Homepage | 05.04.18 - 12:38 p.m. | #
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I find the gloominess of Euston Square oddly enjoyable, and it's always felt vaguely like a well kept secret due to its far busier neighbour. They also always seem to be piping classical music through the public address system, which just makes if feel that little bit different. Feels a bit like a Paris Metro station. Was also a place where you could use the lifts to get into/out of the network without going through a barrier, but I think they've re-jigged the gateline recently, so that's no longer possible? Not condoning that, but that apparent oversight just added to the weird forgotten vibe of the place.
Phil | 07.04.18 - 12:30 a.m. | #
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