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Phew - thanks DG, you have saved me from visiting some of those that I suspected would be turkeys but wasn't quite sure.
One of the great things about being in London is being able to wander freely around all the commercial galleries (mainly Mayfair) and the large auction houses before big sales (there are some at the end of this month).
If anyone hasn't seen the Reverspective optical illusions of Patrick Hughes, there is a good exhibition currently at Alon Zakaim on Dover Street.
GJ | 07.02.19 - 7:47 a.m. | #
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The Magic Realism exhibition looks really great. The inter war years of Berlin culture has been over looked by the general public for too long. I will look in when I visit London in May.
YDU | 07.02.19 - 7:57 a.m. | #
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diamond geezer | Homepage | 07.02.19 - 8:00 a.m. | #
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To imitate the Serpentine Gallery installation; for your own supply of houseflies, just leave a tin of lower-priced catfood open for a few days during warm weather.
amber | 07.02.19 - 8:08 a.m. | #
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Yes, Magic Realism is well worth a visit. Better than the usual fare at Tate Modern, although Marclay's clocks film recently was interesting too. And the blocks of ice from Greenland melting on the terrace. Gone now. Try visiting on a "Lates" night, and see the bright young things come out to play.
Surreal Science at the Whitechapel was also worth seeing, but also gone now. Is the selection from "la Caixa" worth a detour, or should one wait for "Is This Tomorrow?" and "Queer Spaces"?
Two Temple Place is a gem.
Are you planning to visit some of the paid-for exhibitions too? Eg Byrne-Jones at Tate Britain?
Andrew | 07.02.19 - 8:34 a.m. | #
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Seems to me that often, what is presented as 'modern art' is nothing more than a big 'F*** Y**. Here, let me ("curator") shove this sh*t in your face, you p*ncy middle-class a***-**les.'
B | 07.02.19 - 9:00 a.m. | #
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Excellent summary and credible reviews - feel free to make this a monthly feature!
peter | 07.02.19 - 9:12 a.m. | #
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So there’s an actual girl at the desk of the Newport Street Gallery? You wouldn’t write boy if there was a male working there, and the proximity to all those sexually explicit works make this casually sexist formulation all the more baffling.
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Didn't Angry Daubed Genitalia do a couple of Peel sessions around 1990?
Jonathan Wadman | 07.02.19 - 9:52 a.m. | #
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Some of the young gallery staff at the Newport Street Gallery were of a similar age to the nudes they were standing next to, which was somewhat uncomfortable.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 07.02.19 - 10:21 a.m. | #
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The Ruskin sounds worth a look. The rest sounds awful.
David | 07.02.19 - 1:15 p.m. | #
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today the Ruskin was packed, possibly because of the centenary. We couldn't see everything, I might visit again a bit later, it's on till April. (and I wasn't a grey-haired visitor, though the majority present definitely were.)
amber | 07.02.19 - 5:52 p.m. | #
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And here I sit in Walkley, mere yards from Ruskin Park (a sixties slum clearance green space named after him but as far as I can tell at rather the opposite end of Walkley from the site of the museum...)
Sarah | Homepage | 07.02.19 - 7:31 p.m. | #
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Yes, the Serpentine Gallery Huyghe display is indeed awful. Even without that gimmick of the flies, the video installations are dull
Mikey C | 07.02.19 - 11:04 p.m. | #
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Are you and Otto Dix wallah, DG?
Burntweenie | 08.02.19 - 5:41 a.m. | #
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