Words of the Century

Yesterday I saw a fantastic exhibition at the October Gallery in Bloomsbury. It's only showing until the 20th August so I urge you to get over there to see it.

As part of the centenary celebrations of the Concise Oxford Dictionary, photographer Jimmy Symonds has created 10 hand-made artist books for each decade from 1900. For this work Jimmy researched new words from each year, reducing the list until he finally produced this exhibition of one new word or phrase from each year illustrating it with a photo. Examples are 'avant-garde' , 'cloning', 'down-turn'. It is a fabulous project.





I'm gong back to take another look. Pity Jimmy hasn't published a book as this work is really worth being in your library.

Ernest Neto Exhibition

A fun exhibition showing at the Hayward Gallery at present. You are encouraged to take pictures in this section and text them to the on line gallery

The Courtauld Gallery

The Courtauld, a small lesser known gallery on the Strand side of Somerset House, houses an impressive collection of mainly French impressionist and post impressionist art.
Thanks to the philanthropist Samuel Courtauld who founded and donated the works in 1932, you can see and study these works.

Where are all the modern philanthropists? Time bankers and others with the wealth gave back to the community.