MAMCO

I love museums.
And I really liked this one. But, people at the museum wasn´t polite and even asking them any questions respresented a problem.

Nevertheless, it´s full of great art and installations.

My favorites:

* Thomas Huber´s Fishtanks.
* Christo´s Corridor Store front
* Cècile Bart, suspense at Geneve
* Claudio Parmiggiani, Crypt: it´s really scary, yo have to enter a dark room, and then, after a few seconds inside there, you start seeing hand prints on the walls.

DAY 78: ART

A bigger Picture

Today I went to see David Hockney´s exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts.

His paintings are so bright and vibrant!

Every landscape makes you feel you´re inside of it. He painted some of the landscapes from memory and some from observation. I was amazed by the Ipad drawings and the films (9 different cameras focusing on different parts of a road filming at the same time).
The photocollages were nice also.

In the tunnels, he painted the same trees in different seasons, and I love to see the Autumm because I could feel the afternoon sun warming my skin just by seeing the painting. The same happened in Hawthorn Blossom, I could feel the perfume of the bloosoming flowers.

I had to see the exhibition twice because I really enjoyed it!

TATE Britain

If you want to see a beatiful museum without the excess of tourists, you should visit The TATE Britain.  I walked Pimlico streets and arrived to the museum.
It was so quiet and calm.

I really like Ophelia (by Millais), I can feel the cold water by staring at it. Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose (by John Singer Sargent) is so cheery, and those are my favorite paintings there.

DAY 78: Spring day in Chelsea

What-a-nice-day!!!

Today it was so sunny!!!
And I decided to take a walk around Chelsea. It´s a lovely neighbourhood, full of perfect people and shops. A little posh for me, but it´s beatiful.

I started in Sloane Square, seeing some shops and walking the clean streets with white houses and private gardens.
Kate Spade shop has so beatiful things!, but I can´t afford almost anything!

Then I took King´s Road and reached the Saatchi Gallery. Well, that´s a great space of art, and it´s free! The building is so wide, and the art is modern, with nice sculptures and installations. The shop has some original stuff.
In Duke of York´s square there was a food market, I bought a lime-coconut cupcake and sat under the sun to eat it and see people pass by.
After this break, I walked all King´s Rd, and then went to Thames. You know I love this river, and Chelsea bridges are so elegant, like Albert bridge, it´s so fancy (like Chelsea).

I saw the Justice walk and its nice houses, and then croosed the river to the Battersea Park. It´s so wonderful the Spring!, I really enjoyed this park. There´s a Pagoda by the river, and a lake, and some vintage structures from the Festival of Britain in the 50´s. I looked for Henri moore´s sulpture like half an hour, but it´s by the lake if you want to find it.
The Battersea Power Station is really near this park, and it looks like it´s watching over the people in the park.
The views by the Thames are great.

I crossed again and walked by the river, the Physics Garden already closed, so I continued till the Battersea Power Station, I thought maybe, when I come back to London, it will be different.
Then I went back to Sloane Sq. and took the Underground.

Sloane Sq. Station

Lime and coconut cupcake

Anthropologie

Albert Bridge

Battersea Park

Henri Moore

Battersea Power Station

DAY 69: All about Eve

Today, after work, I went to see "All about Eve" exhibition (Art Sensus Galley, 7 Howick Place).

A photography exhibition of Eve Arnold´s work.

She is such an inspiration for photographers. She started her career as a photographer when she was almost 40, and she took some of the most beatiful pictures ever.
She captured the essence and the feelings of the people she portrayed.

The exhibition shows you pictures of celebrities, from the time she documented the making of the films. Nice pictures of Marilyn Monroe, Peter O´toole, Marlene Dietrich, Angelica Houston and many more.

She also travelled a lot, and have some great pictures from Rusia, China, Mongolia, etc.

The series of veiled woman is amazing, because, even when you can´t see their faces, she managed to  capture their eyes, their attitude...
One of my favorite pictures is a photograph of a veiled woman in a market, her hands tell her story, I stood there staring at it for almost 15 minutes.

But the most important, she was a curious person.

"...What keep me gping through the decades? Curiosity. The very unpredictability of photography enthralled me. The possibilities were endless..." Eve Arnold

The Bright Young Things

After Harrods, we started walking, and found out the Victoria and Albert Museum was still opened.
And then, a surprise!

It was Friday late at V&A (Once a month they open till 22,00)
This time was an oportunity of stepping into the glittering world of photographer Cecil Beaton.

The "Society of Bright Young Things" was a group that had become synonymous with glamour, money, celebrated names and lashings of snob appeal in the early 20s. They celebrated parties and meetings, some of them at V&A Museum. They must have been the coolest young people of their time. And that´s the reason this late night is named after them, to celebrate with vintage glamour.

Everybody was wearing a tiara and and top hats, and some 20s style beatiful dresses. A shame I didn´t know this before, I really would have enjoyed to wear a tiara while had a coctel drink.
Live jazz music, played by the Dixie Tricklers (http://www.dixieticklers.co.uk/), the coolest band!They sounded and looked so great (their vintage style is the best!).
Games (Scavenger hunt), lectures, live theater plays and lightdrawings altogether.

It was a lovely night.

Lightdrawings by Hugo Dalton

The Dixie Ticklers

Street Art at Shoreditch