Bailey’s Stardust, National Portrait Gallery, 4 April 2014

An evening visit to the National Portrait Gallery to see David Bailey canonical exhibition.

Janie and I went with Toni Friend.

Here is a link to the National Portrait Gallery resource on this show, which has some really good photographs, presumably being used at the time as “teasers”.

We really liked the exhibition, as did most but not all of the critics.

This search term – click here – will find you reviews, vids, the lot, if you want to know more about it.

Afterwards we went on to Haozhan chinese restaurant for dinner – we felt this place had gone down since our previous visit, but still was a good enough and convenient place to end an enjoyable evening.

Three Galleries In One Day, Royal Academy, National Portrait Gallery and Wallace Collection, 6 October 2008

Hertford House – Wallace without Gromit

Blimey O’Reilly; three galleries in one day and it looks as though we played tennis in the morning before setting off, if my diary scribble is to be believed.

First up: Miró, Calder, Giacometti, Braque at The Royal Academy. This exhibition might have been curated just for us; we both really like all four of these fellas.

An excellent write up appeared on Culture24 – click here.

Sophie Hicks Architects had something to do with it, so click here for their page about it.

We were onto this exhibition early; it ran from 4 October until the January; we were through the door 6 October.

Next up: Annie Leibovitz at the National Portrait Gallery. Click here for a link to the Gallery’s own excellent pages on this exhibition. Also up my/our street – I think she is a wonderful portrait photographer.

Click here for a review of the Annie Leibovitz from the Telegraph.

I think the Osbert Lancaster was a sweetener for me, as I love his cartoons. Not sure Janie was so interested. Perhaps she didn’t realise how keen I was on the other stuff we’d scheduled for that day. Anyway, we had time and off we went. Another exhibition that had just opened a few days before. Click here for the Wallace Collection pages on the exhibition.

In short, this day was an embarrassment of riches in the exhibition stakes – we both thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.