Thursday, February 3, 2011
Sunday, January 16, 2011
High tea
I can't believe it is the last day, still so much to see. I have opted to write the morning away in Bloomsbury. We will meet for high tea at the national gallery cafe at 4:30 today and we should figure out how to share photos and facebook names. The bus leaves at noon tomorrow, be ready and packed. You need to drop off your classroom card prior to departure as well.
See you for a spot of tea later.
See you for a spot of tea later.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
From the crown jewels to Petticoat Lane
The crown jewels today were at once impressive and slightly unreal. The scale of the pomp and circumstance was something I had not anticipated. The star of Africa diamond was the size of a clementine and the giant gilt punch bowl and ladle had golden barnacles on its underbelly. From the Tower of London, several of us headed off to Whitechapel and caught the
Claire Barcley, Mona Hatoum and Richard Wentworth Installations. I couldn't help but to relate the golden vinyl and chain forms in Barclay's piece to that which I had just seen in the Tower of London. The oversized chain was similar in form to that of the chain about the unicorn's neck in the current royal coat of arms. From there we dined on Brick Lane in which somehow I haggled a lunch for us at 8 pounds a person, which included a delicious starter, entree, and beverage. I think the nice young man believed I was haggling with him, but really I had trouble hearig him and so appeared to be playing hard ball. He and his colleagues were very curious about Bangladeshi communities in America and said that American English is slower and more polite, which shocked most of us new yorkers at the table. Full of delicious curry, we continued up brick lane to see some of the graffiti and stumbled upon the Gallery SO,a very cool little gallery that exhibits contemporary jewelry and objects.
We got a particularly thorough tour of the gallery from Antoinette, who also showed us the back gallery space. Our final destination for the evening was petticoat lane, and as we arrived at 5, the street vendors were closing up shop, so the street was a blend of carts,
tarps, shop windows lit up. Peering in, one would see elaborate "holland wax" (.i.e.
patterned fabric-Yinka Sonabear's sail cloth in trafalgar square) stacked pile upon pile and
walls of pink coral necklaces.
Claire Barcley, Mona Hatoum and Richard Wentworth Installations. I couldn't help but to relate the golden vinyl and chain forms in Barclay's piece to that which I had just seen in the Tower of London. The oversized chain was similar in form to that of the chain about the unicorn's neck in the current royal coat of arms. From there we dined on Brick Lane in which somehow I haggled a lunch for us at 8 pounds a person, which included a delicious starter, entree, and beverage. I think the nice young man believed I was haggling with him, but really I had trouble hearig him and so appeared to be playing hard ball. He and his colleagues were very curious about Bangladeshi communities in America and said that American English is slower and more polite, which shocked most of us new yorkers at the table. Full of delicious curry, we continued up brick lane to see some of the graffiti and stumbled upon the Gallery SO,a very cool little gallery that exhibits contemporary jewelry and objects.
We got a particularly thorough tour of the gallery from Antoinette, who also showed us the back gallery space. Our final destination for the evening was petticoat lane, and as we arrived at 5, the street vendors were closing up shop, so the street was a blend of carts,
tarps, shop windows lit up. Peering in, one would see elaborate "holland wax" (.i.e.
patterned fabric-Yinka Sonabear's sail cloth in trafalgar square) stacked pile upon pile and
walls of pink coral necklaces.
Brick Lane
Brick Lane is near the Whitechapel art gallery and famous for both it's street art and Bangladeshi community. Find edgy galleries in this neighborhood as well as in the commercial street tea building.http://www.visitbricklane.org/about-brick-lane/4537674488
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Emily's free time idea III
Following tour of tower of London, head to whitechapel gallery and catch lunch on brick lane.
Damian Ortega will be speaking of his work tomorrow evening at the barbican as well, 7:30.
http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery
Damian Ortega will be speaking of his work tomorrow evening at the barbican as well, 7:30.
http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery
Monday, January 10, 2011
The British museum and the Cadbury flake bar.
OK, so I just had a Cadbury flake bar, introduced to me by Vanessa (thank you for this unique cultural experience) and it is both delicious and really formally curious. The bar appears constructed from chocolate dripped as a band and frozen in time. Thus, the chocolate's interior shape appears generative and much like coral. Mental note: it is hazard to eat a flake bar in bed. For more information on how the British museum is intimately connected to Cadbury flake bars, click this link.
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