Tag: Hayward Gallery

An Utterly Arty Day Off, Several Exhibitions At Several Galleries, 14 April 2008

Janie and I only occasionally took days off to do arty things in those days. So when we did, we went a bit mad and did lots.

So this particular day, 14 April 2008, we went to see three exhibitions at three separate galleries (Ogblogged here) and then went on to the theatre (which I shall Ogblog separately).

First stop, the Royal Academy Of Arts to see From Russia: French and Russian Master Paintings 1870-1925 at the Royal Academy – click here for an excellent preview fro the Guardian.

This piece from the Telegraph – click here – describes the hoo-ha that nearly prevented the Russia exhibition from going ahead.

It was a fabulous exhibition.

Then we shuttled across to the Tate Britain to see the Peter Doig exhibition, which we also enjoyed very much. Click here for the Tate’s informative stub on this exhibition.

Then on to The Hayward to see the Alexander Rodchenko exhibition of photography. Click here for the Southbank Centre’s stub on this excellent exhibition.

All three had been justifiably very well received by the press and we enjoyed a super arty day seeing all three.

 

 

 

 

 

RSJ Restaurant, Preceded By Eyes Lies & Illusions At Hayward Gallery, 10 December 2004

Hayward Gallery by George Rex from London, England, CC BY-SA 2.0

This was a super event; both the restaurant and the preceding gallery visit. Click here to see, on The Internet Archive, the book that accompanied the fascinating Eyes Lies & Illusions exhibition.

RSJ’s was an old haunt/stomping ground of mine, dating back to the 1980s. It wasn’t quite a private room, more like a mezzanine section/area, which detracted a little from that “private party, let your hair down” atmosphere we tended to aim for.

Not that it stopped people from enjoying themselves. It was a very popular event that year.

I think the lack of privacy meant that, I’m pretty sure, we skipped the song that year, but we didn’t skip the giving of gimcrack and an early incarnation of Secret Santa. Had the “Linda Quiz” tradition started yet? The answer to that question might need some silicon dating or some other form of computer data forensics.