Two superficially very different exhibitions at Tate Modern at the moment. One is Pop Life: Art in a Material World; to quote the blurb:
Andy Warhol claimed “Good business is the best art.” Tate Modern brings together artists from the 1980s onwards who have embraced commerce and the mass media to build their own ‘brands’. Pop [...]
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‘Pop Life’ and ‘John Baldessari’ at Tate Modern
16 October 2009 – 4:43 pm
Futurism at Tate Modern
18 June 2009 – 3:06 pm
I went along to the Futurism exhibition at Tate Modern. Having sometimes commented on the excellence of past Tate exhibition websites, I have to say they’ve fallen down on this one — nothing to see at all. And they also didn’t have any exhibition booklets, so I have no aide-mémoire at all.
EDIT: they now have [...]
Rothko at Tate Modern
7 October 2008 – 3:35 pm
I went to the Rothko exhibition at Tate Modern today. The show is of his ‘late series’: the centrepiece is the Seagram Murals (i.e. the group of dark Rothkos which have been in the Tate for years, plus some related works that normally live in Japan), but there are also some other groups of works [...]
Cy Twombly at Tate Modern
3 July 2008 – 9:42 pm
I went to the Twombly exhibition at Tate Modern today. What a fabulous name, btw: I tried climbing the Eiffel Tower but the height made me go all twombly.
He’s not someone I knew much about beforehand, and I don’t know how excited I would have been if I had known; he does what you might describe as [...]
‘Duchamp Man Ray Picabia’ at Tate Modern
7 March 2008 – 7:44 pm
The exhibition is subtitled ‘The Moment Art Changed Forever’ and the poster is illustrated with Duchamp’s Fountain, the famous work that just consists of a urinal signed with the name ‘R. Mutt’. In 2004 Fountain was voted the most influential artwork of the C20th, presumably for having sharply and clearly established the principle that art [...]
Visiting the crack
21 October 2007 – 9:08 am
Last week I went to see the crack at Tate Modern, which is the latest big artwork in the Turbine Hall. You can read what the Tate thinks it’s about here. I found it less impressive in reality than I expected. I’d heard about it before I went, and it looked exactly as I expected [...]
Gilbert and George at Tate Modern
2 March 2007 – 5:08 pm
I went yesterday to see the big Gilbert and George retrospective at Tate Modern. The Tate have done their usual thorough job of putting the exhibition online, so that link will give you a fair idea of what the exhibition’s like.
I enjoyed it more than I expected. Not that I expected to hate it, but [...]
Kandinsky at the Tate
29 June 2006 – 3:04 pm
‘Wassily Kandinsky’; what a great name. Tate Modern currently has an exhibition Kandinsky: The Path To Abstraction, which traces Kandinsky’s development from a painter of Fauvist/post-Impressionist type landscapes to a ‘pure’ abstract painter. It’s confined to the early part of his career, but then I wasn’t very familiar with his work beforehand, so I didn’t [...]
Rousseau at the Tate
24 January 2006 – 3:32 pm
Back to Rousseau. The painter, not Jean-Jacques. I’m afraid the exhibition, Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris is nearly over, so this won’t be much use to anyone who was trying to decide whether to see it.
Rousseau was a bit of an oddity. He was self-taught and, according to the exhibition blurb, he aspired to joining [...]
Falco peregrinus
23 January 2006 – 4:06 pm
I went to see the Rousseau exhibition at Tate Modern today (on which possibly more later) and finally saw one of the resident peregrine falcons. Woohoo! It’s the world’s fastest-falling bird, you know.
Art gallery blurbs
19 October 2005 – 2:19 pm
I’m feeling a bit pot/kettle for having been rude to Lynne Truss for whinging about things, because this, for the third post in a row, is going to be a whinge.
This time: those blurbs in art galleries. Specifically the ones that tell you what to think, and how you should be reacting. I don’t mind [...]
Rachel Whiteread at Tate Modern
12 October 2005 – 5:09 pm
Rachel Whiteread is the latest person to do a big installation in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. Embankment consists of lots of translucent white plastic casts of the internal space of cardboard boxes, piled in a mixture of regular and irregular stacks.
These pictures are taken with my credit card sized digital camera, which is [...]