Trip to London last weekend. After the disturbing events of Thursday, departure was postponed until Saturday. Met up with MJ upon arrival and went to Tate Britain.















Too much there to check out in one visit, but managed to see the paintings from Tudor to Pre-Raphaelite eras and most of the expansive Turner bequest.

Dinner in Angel w MJ, Pete and Fiona then on to a party, then forged on to the Telegraph in Brixton...














...where a good time was had by all.

Sunday was a beautiful day, so we were up nice and early for a bit of fishing in the pond:


































BBQ at Clapham Common that afternoon to celebrate Anthony's birthday in the sunshine:















Then hit the Tate Modern the following morning before heading back to Cambridge.



















I was most impressed with the Tate Modern. It's very thoughtfully curated, based on the themes of Still Life/Object, Landscape, Body and History. I expected to find this type of 'educational' curation a bit pedagogical for my liking but it is an excellent way to present the collection which rates up there with the Centre Pompidou and MoMA. Didn't check out the special exhibitions - a bit too pricey to justify running around them in the 2.5 hours I had.

All in all an excellent modern art experience, one of the coolest I've seen, along with the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the Centre Pompidou, the Museum fur Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt and the Louisiana Museum in Denmark. And of course the MCA in Sydney.
NB. These links are worth checking out as modern art museums invariably have cool websites.

Here's one more photo from London - St Pauls and the Millenium Bridge: