| "Kuniyoshi" | Royal Academy of Arts |
|---|---|
| "Material Gestures" & "Poetry and Dream" | Tate Modern |
| "Passports: Great Early Buys from the British Council Collection" & "The Bloomberg Commission: Goshka Macuga: The Nature of the Beast (Picassso's Guernica)" | Whitechapel Gallery |
| "Isa Genzken: Open Sesame!" & "The Whitechapel Boys" & "Archive Adventures" | Whitechapel Gallery |
| "Living and Dying" and the Africa Collection | British Museum |
| "Maggie! Maggie! Maggie!": An Exhibit on Margaret Thatcher | The Cartoon Museum |
| Britain Rooms and Contemporary Rooms (i.e. Rothko/Turner Match-up) | Tate Britain |
| "Gerhard Richter Portraits" | National Portrait Gallery |
| "Picasso: Challenging the Past" | National Gallery |
| Kettles Yard | House and Museum (Cambridge, UK) |
| Backstage Tour | Royal National Theatre |
| General Exhibit | Dulwich Picture Gallery |
| (loads) | National Portrait Gallery |
| (loads) | National Gallery |
| "African Worlds" | Horniman Museum |
| "Atlantic Worlds" + "Nelson's Navy" | National Maritime Museum |
| "British Galleries: 1760-1900" + Albert Memorial | Victoria and Albert Museum |
| "Altermodern" | Tate Britain |
| "Unveiled" | Saatchi Gallery |
| Royal Observatory | National Maritime Museum |
| "Sculpture" & "Fashion" & "Jewelry Exhibit" & "Cast Courts" & "Ironwork" | Victoria and Albert Museum |
| "Korea" & "Southeast Asian and Himalayan Art" & "China" & "Japan" | Victoria and Albert Museum |
| "The Tomb-chapel of Nebamun: Ancient Egyptian Life and Death" (Room 61) & "Assyrian Sculptures and Gates" (and tablets -- Rooms 6-9 and 10a-10c) | British Museum |
| "Greece: Parthenon" (or otherwise known as "The Elgin Marbles" Rooms 18, 18a, 18b) | British Museum |
| "Taking Liberties" | British Library |
| "Shah 'Abbas: The Remaking of Iran" | British Museum |
| "Enlightenment" (Room 1) | British Museum |
| "First World War Galleries" & "Experience: A Trench" & "Second World War Galleries" & "Experience: The Blitz" & "Conflicts since 1945" | Imperial War Museum |
| "Bird Room" (Right next to famous early-found fossils) & "Human Body" | Natural History Museum |
| "Genetically Engineered Food" | Science Museum |
| "Sir John Soane's House" | Sir John Soane's House Museum |
| "Freud's House" | Freud's House Museum |
| "War and Medicine" | Wellcome Collection |
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Museums I've Seen
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Photos of London
Here for you to enjoy!
My Neighborhood
Sights and Sounds of "my London" (part I)
Sights and Sounds of "my London" (part II)
Sights and Sounds of "my London" (part III)
Stratford-upon-Avon (part I)
Stratford-upon-Avon (part II)
Pancake Day (complete with a Pancake Race at the Houses of Parliament)
St. Patrick's Festival (in Trafalgar Square)
The Folks and Mag's Visit to London
Kew Gardens (part I)
Kew Gardens (part II)
A Country Walk
Cambridge
Winchester (part I)
Winchester (part II)
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
Only For Now...
Wow have I been busy! This past weekend was non-stop going out for me. On Friday, I got half price tickets to Avenue Q, got lunch in Camdentown (where I was hustled for weed...awkward), found a circus store (goodbye bank account, hello fire poi), and went to high tea at the British Museum. We were evacuated out of the building an hour into our tea. Still don't know what happened but it was quite exciting. Ben ended up getting the ticket to the seat next to mine (despite a 6 hour difference in buying times) and together in the back row we had a ball watching the show. They did not make too many changes to the show (the George Bush line is still in) but the ones they did make were startling. In "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist", Polocks change to the French. Gary goes from a superintendent to a handyman -- bit of a downgrade don't you think?
Saturday was an awesome day indeed. Went to Portobello Market where I got german sausage, mexican churros, and some world music cds (some better than others:) ). Next we (dana and I of course) went to the Tate Britain. I saw the Altramodern exhibit. So awesome... especially the amounts of bean bag chairs from which to view art! Next we had our first Irish Coffee at O'Neills...I mean Bailey's Latte. My legs hurt a lot after all that walking.
The next day was spent at Brick Lane. Went to the famous Beigal Shop on Brick Lane (open 24 hours a day they're that good). I experienced my first famous people sighting -- Gilbert and George. The shorter one (I've never seen them apart for all I know they answer to either name) was wearing a ridiculous fur hat. I have a picture of part of the back of one of them. I will treasure it always. I wanted to do a tribute so see above for a work of theirs.
This week is crazy because it might as well be finals week. On top of that, I have this one teacher who thinks that he is not constrained to any sort of time frame. I used to think 5 minutes more of class was bad. Now I wish for those good old days. This teacher normally lets us out of class 30 to 45 minutes late every class. That means I have almost 3 hours of class with him. It is painful! People cannot concentrate that long. It is interesting but does he know that the whole class is pissed at him for his lack of time management skills? I really hate this practice because of the social norm of NOT BEING ABLE TO WALK OUT OF A CLASSROOM. So I'm stuck as this prisoner thinking -- wow laundry, the show I have tonight, dinner, homework for this teacher's very class...which one will I have to skip so I can go to bed at a reasonable time. Sigh.
I saw 12th night last night. Great except for Viola. Maybe she was sick because her body was so ridged and unnatural?
The night before I saw a show that everyone should see: This Isn't Romance. It's about 2 siblings from Korea separated when only one is adopted to a family from London. The show takes place in Korea 25 years after the adoption. WOW.
Hope winter is good in the States. It just won't stop raining here. On the bright side, a bunch of horses just walked past my window.
London Shows
| Kronos Quartet/ Wu Man/ Tan Dun: Ghost Opera | Barbican |
|---|---|
| The Frontline | Globe Theatre |
| Waiting for Godot | Theatre Royal Haymarket |
| Barack Obama: 100 Days with Ziauddin Sardar, Lionel Shriver, Amina Adewusi and Shirley Thompson** | Southbank Centre |
| Time and the Conways | National Theatre, Lylleton |
| Romeo and Juliet | Globe Theatre |
| Dancing at Lughnesa | Old Vic Theatre |
| Death and King's Horseman | National Theatre, Olivier |
| NoFit State Circus present Tabu | Roundhouse |
| Stovepipe | Basement of West 12 Shopping Centre, Sheperd's Bush (site-specific theatre) |
| Nocturnal | Gate Theatre |
| Madame de Sade | Don Mar, Wyndham Theatre |
| 3 Days of Rain | Apollo Theatre |
| The Pitmen Painters | National Theatre, Lylleton |
| Orchestra Baobab + Kasse Mady Diabate* | Barbican |
| A Little Night Music | Garrick Theatre |
| Spring Awakening | Novello Theatre |
| The 39 Steps | Criterion Theatre |
| Watchmen+ | BFI IMAX |
| Q & A with Kathryn Hunter and Walter Meierjohann | Young Vic Theatre |
| Kafka's Monkey | Young Vic Theatre |
| Waltz with Bashir+ | Prince Charles Cinema |
| Lion King | Lyceum Theatre |
| Woman in Mind | Vaudeville Theatre |
| The Tempest | Courtyard Theatre (Stratford-upon-Avon, UK) |
| Greenwash | Orange Tree Theatre |
| Duet for One | Almeida Theatre |
| STOMP* | Ambassadors Theatre |
| Los Van Van + DJs Dr Jim and Javier La Rose* | Roundhouse |
| Twelfth Night | Don Mar, Wyndham Theatre |
| This Isn't Romance | Soho Theatre |
| Avenue Q | Noël Coward Theatre |
| Every Good Boy Deserves Favor | National Theatre, Olivier |
| Wrecks | Bush Theatre |
| Truncated | Blue Elephant Theatre |
| War Horse | National Theatre, Olivier |
| Unbroken | Gate Theatre |
| Platform Performance: Tom Stoppard | National Theatre, Olivier |
| England People Very Nice | National Theatre, Olivier |
*Indicates a music show.
+Indicates a film.
**Indicates a lecture.
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