In my continuing quest to write with some regularity today I bring you a couple of things that I really like. Many of these items and articles are the things that have kept me going during lockdown.
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Apocalypse Now?
So.
We’re in lockdown. Today marks the end of week two. In that time, and aside from my wife and dog, I’ve had face-to-face conversations with precisely three people, all neighbours, and all from the safety of at least two metres distance. It’s a curious existence, but one that we have all seemingly adapted to with great speed.
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Keith Haring, at the Tate, Liverpool.
I visited the Tate Liverpool’s Keith Haring exhibition this week, and took the attached photographs.
This is the first staging of Haring’s work on this scale in the UK. Given that his work is EVERYWHERE, from socks and film posters, to Lacoste polo shirts, I half expected to be underwhelmed, due to the nature of desensitisation that often comes with over saturation. Alas, I needn’t have worried, with the show a genuine triumph, and as great an advert for Walter Benjamin’s The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction as ever I’ve seen. It’s a powerful, moving experience, and one that I would wholeheartedly recommend one takes in prior to the show closing in November.
The Glass Family 