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not much to say today !
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(O)Mai!
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Concise and to the point!
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We can empty our brains here even if dg has not today.
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The new NPG logo is a welcoming change of identity.
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No need to say more than necessary when the photo is worth a thousand words.
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Great to see all the old friends back on the walls - and significantly more walls than before. Still a scrum at the top of the escalator and round the Tudors. Surprised to see the old ‘side’ entrance still in use, labelled and with welcoming banners, when they’d gone to all the trouble of building the new grand entrance at the ‘back’ with the Tracy Emin doors. I thought the whole idea was to reorient and open up the building to face north, but many seemed to prefer the old welcoming staircase that leads you up to the pictures, rather than the new entrance that gives onto an airy foyer and a gift shop.
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How's the National Landscape Gallery doing?
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It's been great to see the post unfolding today - rather in the the way a painter's dabs and daubs gradually develop into a fully-formed work of art.
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Coincidentally, I was there today, enjoying the Voguey exhibition and the rehang (and escaping the heat outside).
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Just saw a trailer on Sky; Sky Arts are featuring the gallery in a 3(?) part series from 11th July.
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You’ve not sold it, I’m afraid. I’ll save my bus fare.
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This WE I came down from E8 jogging through the loveliest parts of Islington to National Portrait Gallery to check out the refurb. Try it for yourself, it is worth it. They woked it up quite a lot (enslavaging, wom*nx, revolts, propaganda) but without altering the fabric of the portraits (old white male apart from the occasional Byron) and, AFAIK, cancelling anybody. So all in all not too infuriating and super varied.
On theway back i stopped by the annual Camden Mela in Coram Fields, only time I can get into Coram Fields on my own (you need to be accompanied by kids - nice idea). Because of the donation history, this is also the place for a memorial to 2 of the 3 Rothermere boys who died in WW1. I then read the bio of the non-cancelled Lord R on the web, quite a story. |
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