Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘Exhibition’ Category
Places of the mind – British watercolour landscapes 1850–1950
Sunday, July 9th, 2017Room 90 at the British Museum is one of my favourite places to visit when in London. Hidden away at the top and back of the building the little art exhibitions are often a real treat. Places of the mind – British watercolour landscapes 1850–1950 is no exception with works by James McNeil Whistler, Edward […]
Pink Floyd Their Mortal Remains at the V&A
Sunday, July 9th, 2017The exhibition Pink Floyd Their Mortal Remains at the Victoria and Albert museum in London is more of a multimedia experience than a simple display of artefacts. Then I’ve never been to an exhibition that includes a show with lasers, Vari-Lites, multiple projectors and smoke machines or display based a two-story section based on the […]
The Danger Tree
Tuesday, December 13th, 2016The Danger Tree is a free, augmented reality exhibition by artists Scarlett Raven and Marc Marot (previously shown in Greenwich) is on at the Dr Martin Luther King Junior Building at the Albert Dock until the 18th December 2016. The gallery has been filled with a replica of a ruined gallery on the border between […]
London Exhibitions Summer 2016
Sunday, July 17th, 2016So a quick personal review of things I went to in London last week… Serpentine Pavilion 2016 Serpentine Pavilion 2016 (photo above) which is extremely cool. For first time this year there are the four summer houses elsewhere in the park which were smaller but also interesting. I’ll probably do separate posts about these when […]
Pahnl’s A History of Us Book
Thursday, November 5th, 2015The book of A History of Us Book by Pahnl that I stumbled on with friends at the Herbert Gallery and Museum in Coventry in September arrived today and its really gorgeous. I’d wondered how the 40m long artwork with accompanying text could be broken down for the book – each page is a small […]
The History of Us by Pahnl
Monday, September 14th, 2015Went to The History of Us at the Herbert Gallery and Museum in Coventry yesterday. A 44m long timeline of history filled with tiny stencilled dinosaurs, people and other creatures. With 500 entries each with a short description and varying degrees of accuracy it took us a good hour and a half to make our […]
Mayas: revelation of an endless time
Saturday, July 18th, 2015I went to the excellent, free exhibition Mayas: revelation of an endless time at the World Museum in Liverpool today for a second visit. There are 385 Mayan artefacts covering the period from 250 to 1250AD. I needed a second visit having nipped in on a lunch break the week it opened not knowing what […]
What I did on my London Holiday 2015
Thursday, July 9th, 2015Annual summary of what I did on my holiday post… Bank of England Building open day & Museum well worth the visit but almost two hours of standing waiting to go in for a thirty minute tour might put off the less determined. Really interesting to see rooms normally closed to the public and the […]
Jackson Pollock – Blind Spots
Sunday, June 28th, 2015Pollock like Damien Hurst and Mondrian was on my not sure list (which covers most 20th Century artists to be fair to Hurst and Mondrian). Until you’ve seen a variety of their work together I find it’s really hard to know if you’ll like them or not. So I went to have a look at […]
A few London Exhibitions
Sunday, July 13th, 2014Took a weekend trip to London. Here’s a quick round up of the exhibitions I went to. All the exhibitions have an entrance fee except where I’ve said it’s free. Useful + Beautiful At the Geffrye Museum – a small, single room exhibition including some interesting furnishings created in the last few years. My first […]