Category: documentary

Greetings, Citizens of the New Magicians of the Queens

South Street, Chichester

This is a Google translation – I was unable to do better with other online translation services but I feel like the noviomagorum is being translated in an non-idiomatic way… and not how you expect to be greeted for pizza.

Love’s End?

The End of Love, Tracy Emin, 2024

Last month we went to see the big Tracey Emin retrospective at the Royal Academy. The best work, for my taste, were the large paintings from her latest period, which she considers a kind of rebirth. For me, the earlier work was very much like reading a teenage girl’s private diary, full of adolescent anger at people who “just don’t understand me,” and extremely narcissistic (to be fair, private diaries probably are all mostly narcissistic, albeit not often shared publicly). I took a lot of pictures – here they all are in roughly reverse chronological order (click on any one of them to see them all full-sized):

Hockney

Serpentine Gallery North, London

We happened to be viewing Hockney’s iPad-drawn mural at the Serpentine Gallery North in London the very day he lay dying elsewhere in London. This tree-house painting was in the garden outside behind the coffee shop and I crouched down to include the flora growing in front of it to make it fit into the scene more organically.