The sweet smell of oranges...

Whitechapel Gallery will remind me of the intensive orange smell discovered in one of the boxes in Room 5...

Later, when I walked down Brick Lane, the sweet and heavy smell of incense was escaping from restaurants and shops...

Museums' Thursday

Will it be my Thursday's tradition to start my day with visiting Tate Britain? ;) Maybe... Today there was another curators' talk but this time about the Classified exhibition. They talked for about an hour about the display in general and then about each room and artist. I enjoyed it very much. When I first saw the exhibition I didn't pay so much attention to all the details that I've heard today :)
I go to Victoria Gardens next to The Houses of Parliament almost every time I'm at Tate. I like to sit on the grass there :))


Since yesterday I planned to go to the Fashion and Textile Museum so I crossed the river on Westminster Bridge and took the Thames Path.
In front of The Southbank Centre there was a nice artwork made by a Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama Ascention of Polkadots on the Trees (2009).


The way to the Fashion & Textile Museum was a bit tricky because of maintenance works. The shortest way was closed so I had to use the alternative one. I didn't find it very safe... The road under the bridge looked rather scary to me...
Luckily, I managed to get there safe and sound :)
There's now on display Undercover: The Evolution of Underwear. Tempting? ;) That's why I went there and paid £6.50 ;)) And finally I've found a museum where you can take as many photos as you like! :)




Why the most beautiful underwear has to be so expensive?? :(
The museum shop made me crazy - so many wonderful earrings! :) Let me just find a job and then ... ;))


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Tiring myself out

What a day! :)

I woke up at 7am (incredible, I behave like my grandma... ;] ). Tate Britain is to blame - today at 9 there was a curator's talk organized especially for the staff. Of course I couldn't miss such occasion, even if it required getting up early! Early bird catches the worm ;)
The lady, the first curator I've met here, came a bit late, but it doesn't matter :) She told very interesting things about the new Eva Rothschild's exhibition. I took some notes as if I were still a student listening to a lecture :)

Then I headed towards Waterloo Station to a road called Lower Marsh. There was supposed to be an organization for people who want to work in cultural institutions. It seems that there's no such place any more... :( I hate it when I prepare myself for something special and then it turns out that my expectations and hopes come to nothing...
Fed up, I decided to cheer myself up with a bit of luxury: a nice falafel sandwich and a cup of coffee with soy milk :) It worked! :) The vegetarian cafe I went to wasn't the coolest place I've ever been to but at least the food and drink was worth its money.

The weather didn't seem to change much so I decided to take a walk to Serpentine Gallery. With AZ map in my bag I walk through St. James Park, Green Park, and finally Hyde Park. There was an enormous crowd in front of The Buckingham Palace - people were watching the guards exchange. And so did I :)

To be honest I didn't expected so many people at the Jeff Koons's exhibition! I remember when I first saw his Puppy made of flowers in Bilbao. From that time I like his art, full of consumer goods.
Before I got there I wanted piss badly! But as soon as I noticed the art works nothing else was more important than see the exhibition immediately! :)

In the parks there were lots of people, ducks, and squirrels :)

The last place I wanted to visit was The National Portrait Gallery. It was a long walk from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square...
I took a chance to go to Borders in Oxford Street to buy The Ultimate Guide To Graphic Design - this is how it ends when I enter a shop. Never can resist temptation to buy something for myself... (well, I do buy stuff for others, really, I'm not that selfish!) :)
I think everyone will agree that walking along Oxford Street is a big challenge! To make my route easier I followed a guy in a nice color-stripped shirt - he was pushing through the crowd and I was right behind to save my time :) He had a nice perfume ;)
When I finally reached my destination, I was REALLY REALLY tired! I didn't managed to see the whole collection, only the BP Portrait Award 2009. It's amazing what people can do with paints and brushes...



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