Saturday, March 28, 2009

Museums I've Seen

Exhibits I've seen in London in no particular order.
"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 CollectionBritish Museum
"Maggie! Maggie! Maggie!": An Exhibit on Margaret ThatcherThe 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 YardHouse and Museum (Cambridge, UK)
Backstage TourRoyal National Theatre
General ExhibitDulwich 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 MemorialVictoria and Albert Museum
"Altermodern"Tate Britain
"Unveiled"Saatchi Gallery
Royal ObservatoryNational 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

1 comment:

  1. Hmmm... a table. I wonder if perchance this blogger might have taken an html course last semester? Or something...

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