Out & about

For the record, a few things seen this week.

Monday: Why does washing the windows take all morning? Because so much has to be moved to get at them, and because you might as well replant the window boxes while you're at it....

Tuesday: Seung-taek Lee at White Cube, Masons Yard -

 A quick visit to Serpentine Gallery for a glimpse of what lies behind Christo's installation on the lake -

then a quick visit to the Royal College of Art degree show -

a machine for making dipped pots ... hmm ...

wildly chunky knitwear

 and an unsurprisingly interesting evening -

Enfield (a poltergeist and the first cash machine),
Bedford (airship sheds and a female messiah),
the Ratcliffe on Soar power station (and a jolly cafe),
and the tube without people 

Wednesday: Walking another section of the Capital Ring ... and coming across Britain's largest outdoor swimming pool, opened in 1906 -

The fountain is an aerator, helping to keep the water clean

 ... and a few other curiosities -

Though drastically cut back, this hedge remains

Striking combination of tiles in Balham

Thursday: PV for City Lit Advanced Textiles - now a two-year course - varied and interesting show at Espacio Gallery -

Yvonne Blackmore

Liz Parry

Shirley Hunter

Sarrah El-Bushra

Friday: Lunch with Vicky, followed by a shady ice cream in thepark in Muswell Hill -

Downtown, on Bond Street, shops had window displays tied in with the RA's 250th anniversary. After hours, jewellery is removed. This one embraced the idea that "art" need not be just painting, it can include other media; but using crochet cotton to stitch landscapes would be a case of "wrong kind of thread on the canvas" but those bright balls are visually better in a window than hanks of green and brown thread would be -

Excellent talk at RI on "Are we ready for the next pandemic" by a speaker who is helping with preparadness, eg by founding CEPI -

Saturday: Open Studios at East London Printmakers, lovely place, big and light and clean and tidy and lots of interesting things going on -

 Demonstration of collograph with chine colle by Amanda Taylor -

 Prints to buy and take home -

Quick visit to the Mile End Art Pavilion for the ESOP show -

Elizabeth Hilliard Selka

Lucy Marston