Despite the strike managed to reach Tate Modern by bus to Tate Britain, then boat to Tate Modern. If only we could get TfL to run a regular river bus service running say from Putney toTate Modern or bejond. on a quarter hour service (if Venice can do it on the Grand Canal why not London) people would enjoy travelling into work. Yesterday, I tried the so called regular service from Wandsworth but that is only early in the morning and the evening. If a reliable 15 minute service was set up people would use it, especially in the Spring and Summer months.
The important thing is that the Futurist Show at Tate Modern is outstanding. I had always been rude about that 1910 movement because of their naive beliefs in war and their antagonism to woman but once one sees the totality of their views and the exciting work they produed which has all the vigour of modern London or New York, one comes away from the show full of excitment, not to mention a tendency to spend more money than intended in the Tate bookshop afterwards.
Well worth a visit but take your time and use the new audio headphones that carry considerably more information than the old ones.
Reginald
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Who said the English Summer was the time to go away, preferably abroad.The art world, possibly because of the stimulus of Venice, has truly come alive.
ReplyDeleteDid anyone else see the outstanding BBC Two proamme last night on Manet presented by Waldemar Januszczak. Apart from his excellent reviews inter alia in The Sunday Times,he has remarkable presentation skills.I felt at the end of the enlightening one and a half hours that I had been with him throughout the survey on this artist.
Whatever we say about the BBC it leads the way in art programmes. BBC Four has become the channel of choice in the evening. It is almost the Radio Three of television.
Reginald