Tate Modern 🇬🇧 London

[CR]

hi,

I'm thinking of visiting london this month for one day, arriving at kings cross in the morning.

I was wandering if anyone could give me some advice on where to visit - good graffiti sites, banksy works esp, good art galleries or modern museums.

any advice would be great.

thanx

[danster1]

okey cokey.....well head to Old St stn get out and wander, there are loads of banksys, failes, d-face worth checking out....then tube over to tottenham court rd downstairs at FOPP have some great POW prints and lots of them ( Micallefs angel bombers star of the show in my opinion) ....then down to Lazarides Gallery in Greek st.....then a bit of classical with Velazquez at the National................job done.

[pastiepie]

tate modern is free

[gm]

Tate Modern has GIANT TWISTY SLIDES! ;D

www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/carstenholler/default.shtm

It's also on the South Bank, so there's a pretty good chance you'll see some good graff on the way there, although I think most of, if not all, the Banksys are gone now

[lesroy]

Can someone link the guy to the Banksy map of London ... I can't remember where to find it

[Ågent ßacardi]

lesroy said:

Can someone link the guy to the Banksy map of London ... I can't remember where to find it

Ummm... that wouldn't be the button at the top of this page that reads "Banksy Location Map", would it? ;D

[Daniel Silk]

agentbacardi said:

lesroy said:

Can someone link the guy to the Banksy map of London ... I can't remember where to find it

Ummm... that wouldn't be the button at the top of this page that reads "Banksy Location Map", would it? ;D

Why do I Bother ;D

[mwjm0]

Great Phil Frost show @ Elms Lesters Painting Rooms just around the corner from Laz gallery until mid Novemeber

[lesroy]

OOPs!! soz Silky!!

Alas... there is no hope for me... I bet that I could tell you where to find the "Refresh" button though!
'

[Ågent ßacardi]

lesroy said:

OOPs!! soz Silky!!

Alas... there is no hope for me... I bet that I could tell you where to find the "Refresh" button though!
'

Get your grubby hands off the refresh button!! Over the past week, we have developed a deep and meaningful relationship... nobody fingers her but me!!!
;D

[ABC]

Conor H show at laz should be good

[gm]

Did I mention that the Tate Modern has GIANT TWISTY SLIDES!?

[gm]

abcollings said:

Conor H show at laz should be good

When? I bloody love Conor H. Will never be able to afford one but I think they're feckin wonderful.

[KaL976]

It's not exactly art related, or free, [£13 per adult] but the London Eye is worth doing if you're in the area

[Ågent ßacardi]

kal976 said:

It's not exactly art related, or free, [£13 per adult] but the London Eye is worth doing if you're in the area

Agreed! When I was in London, I thought it was just another ferris-wheel type thing. But went on it and it was quite spectacular, especially as it had just started getting dark. The only thing I thought was really stupid was how they kept referring to the rides as 'flights'. I know it's British Airways and all, but still... it's dumb. ;D

[ABC]

Conor H is on now at Laz

[gm]

Cool, Cheers ;D

Just hope it's still on by the time I can get there.

[ABC]

30th Nov end I think, Check Laz site

[slowmo]

For the love of God, please start buying good original pieces of Banksy work for display in the Modern. At the moment they are still just about affordable, but I reckon they'll leave it another 4 years or so and end up buying something for £1m.

[Va Va Voom]

Agreed..you would hope that the curator has made an acquisition or two by now,and some Adam Neate .

[pezlow]

What would happen to the Banksy CND Soldiers in the Mark Wallinger exhibition. Would the tate keep it?

[ABC]

I dont know Pez, but go and have a look at Moffs collection on the "other one". FM its amazing.

[slowmo]

The Banksy in the Wallinger exhibition is a copy of the original, not the original itself. He had a big team painstakingly recreate everything for state britain. Saw a south bank show about it.

[RBK]

I bet the Tate has a few Banksy's in their storage

[andrewd]

slowmo said:

The Banksy in the Wallinger exhibition is a copy of the original, not the original itself. He had a big team painstakingly recreate everything for state britain. Saw a south bank show about it.

They also said that there might be one or two pieces in the Wallinger exhibition that were original, whether they are the teddy bears or the two Banksy bits I suppose we'll just have to guess!

[ejvaze]

OK so it may not be street art but it was as revolutionary and even more controversial than street art was in it's day in the art world.

Tate Modern 21st February to 26th May
Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia

Three friends who together helped create Dada movements in NY and Paris. They shared an irreverent and anarchistic attitude towards life and art and their pioneering ideas about art continue to reverberate to this day.

I went to a PV last night and thought this a Very Good Exhibition.
Three great artists.

In the first room as you enter there are 2 small mirrors framed along with some portraits One mirror signed by Duchamp, he is reported as saying as he sighed it
'I am signing ready made portraits', it made me laugh out loud.

And for those worried about Neate painting on card well don't be Picabia was doing it back in 1921 and the painting Astralabe still looks good today.

Painting on found objects and using recycled materials they were doing it way back then in the early 1900s ...nothings new.

Love Man Ray's motto at the end of his life
'The least possible effort for the greatest possible result'
Remind you of anyone?

A really good exhibition worth seeing

[Coach]

thanks for the info vazie.
i went to a man ray exhibition about 15 years ago at the serpantine. his photos are certainly worth seeing in the flesh at full size, rather than just in a book. spectacular

[hanky]

Think I'll pop over next week - Thanks for the info

[ejvaze]

This exhibition has photos film drawings sculpture and paintings by all three artists side by side and is really good.
You can see the influence they have had on the art that followed even on street art.
Loved the graphics work they did and was amused at Duchamps obsession with changing his identity even cross dressing. Man Ray dressed as an Egyptian.

Some of the photographic pieces were so tiny the size of the little Slinkachu picture which Bigman gave me at the BRP and so well framed, gave me an idea on how to frame my little picture..

One piece reminded me of Faile a collage of many different layers that looked weathered and like a street piece.
The exhibition shows how the three friends ideas, interests and jokes effected each others work throughout their lives and encouraged each to progress.


I have seen Man Rays work before but never the three artists works together.
In fact I had never seen Picabia's work in the flesh before and was really drawn to it.

[romanywg]

Love Man Rays work. Probably my favorite artist. Visited his grave last year when I was in Paris. Amazing graveyard, full of artists.