Sunday, April 15, 2012

Art exhibitions I've been to recently

I've been to a few and been meaning to blog about them.  So will now precise:

Freud - Nat Portrait Gallery -   Love the flesh but uneasy feeling about him and women
Hockney Royal Academy - beautiful bright coloured paintings of Yorshire landscapes.  The huge ipad prints really interesing - just got couple of books from library on his digital art.   Look forward to getting ipad one day.
Hirst - Tate Modern - agree with some critics - doesn't need 9 rooms at the Tate.  I liked half of it - the butterflies and flies (I know, they belong in science museum).  Some pretty stuff.   A big butterfly flew onto my bright orange coast and attendant had to remove it before I could leave the room.
David Shrigley - Haywood - only 10mins so will go again.  Some humour in the drawings.  Not sure about the scupltures.  I loved his animations a few years ago.

Tate Britain - all in one afternoon for quick previews.
Patrick Keiller -  'The Robinson Institute'   -friend from NZ wants to see it so i thought i'd check it out - for me with poor attention span and dislike of standing, I didn't stay long enough to read the long texts in detail or watch the 1/2 hour videos which moved very slowly but i think i got the jist.   Not bad but not my thing.  Admire rather than love.
 Picasso and British Art - Tate Britain - only had 10 mins before closing.  Will probably go again.  Seems ok.
Migrations - British art through the theme of migration from 1500 to the present day.  Need more time/less aches and pains to read the labels about the artists.

Still to see:
Hajj - British Museum
Turner - National Gallery

Sunshine Citrus Drizzle Coconut Cake - all 4000 calories of it

My take on lemon drizzle cake.  Added cocount instead of ground almond as in the recipe.  Sauce is lemon, lime and orange juice with icing sugar (and a little cornflour which I added by mistake instead of icing sugar so had to heat it to cook the cornflour then add masses of OJ.  So I now have masses of the sauce.)