What's For Afters?

Yet more kulcha

Rotten blogger is rotten blogger.

Still, have been busy doing kultural things. What's new I hear you ask.

Saturday: John Leguiziano one man show. None of us really had any clue who he was before we went (stunningly cheap last minute ticket offer) but fascinating insight into a how a Colombian-American made it from the ghetto to Hollywood. As interesting for me was the insight into how creative people suffer. As my father once said when looking at a particularly crazy series of artworks 'I pity artists sometimes with all that going on in their heads.'

Friday: Richter at Tate Modern. Again I didn't know anything about him before going. (See, I really have no claim to be cultural.) All anyone could tell me was that he was varied. Which indeed it was. My favorite piece was the three large framed pieces of glass that could be swung so each time it was exhibited it was different. It's clear he's a technically brilliant painter, many of the paintings I thought were photographs at first, but also that he had lots of things going on in his head and ideas that he played with. All very interesting but I'm not sure I actually liked the results that much.

Previous Friday: London Chamber Orchestra at Cadogan Hall. Front row seats. We were almost in the first violins. Finzi (take it or leave it), Mendelssohn's violin concerto (gorgeous), Beethoven's Fourth (they played standing up, never seen that before - loved it, not entirely sure I've ever heard it, can that be possible?)

Phew.

And now for the Archers.

posted by Cal @ 6:56 PM