The world as we have known it for most of our lives is not only upside down but also inside out.
First visit to London in two years! Went to see the Yayoi Kusama exhibition at Tate Modern. But art seems totally irrelevant with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
By the time we went to see Surrealism Without Borders I was too tired to look. This was a typical Tate Modern blockbusting art history exhibition. Too busy and too big with too much stuff.
These are pieces of fossilized dinosaur bone collected from Smokejacks Brickworks in 2017. There’s not enough material to discern which dinosaur they came from but there was a suggestion that it might be material from two different individuals as there is evidence of two different types of diagenesis.
I’ve been looking at the pieces using a microscope and the only difference that I can see is the quantity of pyrite. Most pieces contain a lot of pyrite crystals but a couple of pieces contain less. I was surprised to see any pyrite.
I’ve just finished reading The Secret Lives of Colour. Really enjoyed this excellent book by Kassia St Clair.
Contemporaries – now extinct.
Looking back and looking forwards.
This Is Going to Hurt, the new BBC tv drama based on Adam Kays book of the same name.
I seem to be hugely in the minority here but I didn’t like this programme at all. I thought that this pompous little twit of a junior doctor was horrible, cynical and deeply unpleasant. Nothing was funny or hilarious. The whole programme was steeped in misogyny. Good job he stepped away from medicine!
Barbara Roberts - NON ART 