please empty your brain below
I hope the lack of comments doesn't indicate a lack of readers for this very interesting post. The links are worth following up as well - including the comments at the foot of Brian Sewell's 'virulent' article.

GA Annie | 20.07.13 - 11:09 p.m. | #

No mention for Simon Starling's Phantom Ride in the big Duveen Galleries? Thought that would have been right up your street DG.

Waterhouse | 21.07.13 - 7:39 a.m. | #

I'm a great fan of Tate Britain as well, despite the greater fame and popularity of it's Modern companion. (And for the full 'day out' the boat trip between the two galleries is a real bargain for a small surcharge on your Oyster card) The new hanging of the main collection at Tate Britain is now a fascinating chronological sweep through British art, though the rooms become strangely sparse towards the present day.

As for the Lowry show, his pencil sketches showed buildings in perfectly normal perspective, so he too must have painted his flat townscapes like that 'on purpose'. These pesky artists! Whenever I'd seen a single Lowry I always thought they were rather jolly, but after seeing several rooms of them, they became quite depressing. Maybe that's what the artist intended as well.

Actonman | 21.07.13 - 10:31 a.m. | #

Great place and way less touristy than the Modern. Yes, the riverbus is awesome. Also Pimlico tube is closer, I'm sure and the 88 bus puts you right outside, a nice bimble from Camden Town.

Dave Hodgkinson | Homepage | 21.07.13 - 10:35 a.m. | #

Tate Britain is in Millbank, not Pimlico.
Sorry to be picky.

John | 21.07.13 - 1:04 p.m. | #

I can't find any way at the Tate's website to book all 3 exhibitions for 19 pounds.

dg writes: Try https://tickets.tate.org.uk/performancelist.asp?ShowID=4860

Neil | 22.07.13 - 4:11 p.m. | #

"It's almost comic book, but more competently drawn"

Because, as everyone knows, comic books are incompetently drawn.

Right.

(Although, knowing you, I strongly suspect you put this in specifically for the purpose of trolling me to see if I'd respond. I know I've been on holiday for a week, but surely you're not that desperate for irate comments?)

swirlythingy | Homepage | 23.07.13 - 2:04 a.m. | #

Quote: "Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they are there every night, they see it done every night, they see how it should be done every night but they can't do it themselves."

pete | 24.07.13 - 11:35 a.m. | #











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