Category: Art
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Art and Medicine
I have something of a blog backlog of posts about events I've been to lately: Patients First, New Light on Ancient Medicine, the Brighton LibTeachMeet, of course, the CILIP Sussex AGM… As time passes, my notes make less and less sense. So the sensible thing to do is to begin with those I remember best.…
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Eric Gill at Moorfields
I haven't said a great deal here about my current workplace, Moorfields Eye Hospital, but this is perhaps worth mentioning. There's an Eric Gill bas relief outside, showing The giving of sight to Blind Bartimaeus (Mark 10:46-52). It's on the facade of the 'new' building, started in 1933. It is now not so prominent, as the main…
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Eric Ravilious
I went to the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne to see their Familiar Visions exhibition of work by Eric and James Ravilious, father and son, the former a painter, his son a photographer. The exhibition was magnificent, and I have never seen so many of Ravilious père’s works in one place before. The exhibition consists of…
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The fourth plinth
I thought I was too late, but as you can see, I’m not, so I’ve entered the draw for places on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square in September. If I fail to win a place, I’ll enter the draw for October.What will I do with my hour on the plinth? Wait and see. I…
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Running in the harem
Continuing my art-orgy, started with a visit to the Hammershoi at the Royal Academy, I went to Tate Britain, to see both Martin Creed’s Work no 850 and the Orientalism exhibition. I’ve referred to Creed before, on my running blog, but seeing it is another matter. Runners, I counted four different ones, three men, one…
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The poetry of silence
On the recommendation of the nicest and best art historian of the modern epoch, I went to the Royal Academy to see the Vilhelm Hammershøi exhibition, The Poetry of Silence. I knew nothing of Hammershøi before, but was deeply impressed by his pictures, mostly interiors, sometimes empty, sometimes peopled by a single woman, frequently seen…
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Tanya Harrod: Hilary and Joanna Bourne lecture
Hilary and Joanna Bourne lecture: The Arts and Crafts Movements in England and Japan: Ditchling in Context. Tanya Harrod: http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/ceramics/points_of_view/people/harrod/http://www.rca.ac.uk/pages/study/dr_tanya_harrod_652.html The Hilary and Joanna Bourne lecture is held annually on the Sunday nearest to Hilary’s birthday, November 27, to celebrate the remarkable lives of the founders of the museum.Introduced by Roger Broadbent, one of the…
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Didn’t he ramble? CILIP Sussex summer stroll
I went on the CILIP Sussex sub-branch’s summer evening event, a walk from Berwick to Alfriston and back. It was a lovely evening and we walked through ripe cornfields. See here for Flickr photographs. The high point was a brief visit to Berwick church, to see the Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant murals, astonishingly bright…
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Tate Modern
Yesterday to Tate Modern to see the Bruce Nauman audio installation in the turbine hall. I found it utterly fascinating and could have spent hours there. It reminded me of some of John Cage’s ideas. Also on display, though no time to see it in detail, is his Mapping the Studio (Fat Chance John Cage).…