Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2024/05/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You are lucky. I have usually found the most agreeable part of Tate Modern is the restaurant, the 2-3 times I have been there! I prefer Tate Britain myself, if only for its eye popping collection of JMW Turner. I always go there when I am in London. Cheers Jayanand On Sat, May 11, 2024 at 10:39?PM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > I was in London in late April, my first visit to the city in 8 years. I > was there to participate in a workshop at London Metropolitan University, > but as always, I made time to enjoy the great city and to see some art. I > visited two of my favourite places, Tate Modern and the National Portrait > Gallery. Both were great, but especially the exhibition at the NPG was > incredible. It was called ?The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the > Black Figure?. As the title suggests, it consisted of works by Black > artists, mainly UK and US-based, but also many with African and Caribbean > backgrounds. Some of the works were truly incredible and eye-opening, for > example the charcoal drawings by Barbara Walker, reproducing famous > paintings in which Black characters had a secondary role, but now inverting > the roles by emphasising them. A gallery of 52 images is here: > > https://www.greatpix.eu/Art-in-London-2024 > > The first part of the gallery is from Tate Modern, the second part from > the NPG. > > And as always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated. > > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > photo at frozenlight.eu > > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.frozenlight.eu > > ????? ???????! ?????? ?????! > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information