Two Days Away.

Today I visit London and am awaiting the 10.40 a.m. train to King’s Cross. I have registered through Expedia to stay one night at a Point A Hotel on Greys Inn Road in King’s Cross. Tonight, I see my friend Claire, who I have known since she was 9 years of age as the daughter (and is now 51) of my former student at the Roehampton Institute. Leanne, Claire’s Mum, was a mature student when I taught her (me in my twenties), and she died recently at the age of 83 or 84, I forget which. I miss her.

We meet outside Wyndhams Theatre at 7 p.m. to see My Master Builder, a play I prepared myself for at a blog at this link. It should be a play we enjoy and we can catch up at the interval.

Tomorrow I will travel to Tate Britain to see a show of Ithell Colqhoun, the first retrospective of that surrealist artist.

At the same place, I will see a personal favourite, never seen in exhibition, Edward Burra [see a blog on him at this link)

Then on – probably walking on the riverbank to Tate Modern to see an artist I don’t know, Do Ho Suh, whose Genesis Exhibition [Do Ho Suh: Walk the House | Tate Modern https://share.google/rToNgKkSuaXaFpbIy] exhibition does literally what it says. It provides imagined houses simulated in non-permqnent materials that open up our idea of architectural time and space.

This is new to me. I can’t wait. And then on to the Serpentine Gallery to see the Arte Povera work in wood of Giuseppe Penone [I visited his work last in a show n Yorkshire – Giuseppe Penone: A Tree in the Wood | Yorkshire Sculpture Park https://share.google/H5fFZVNarqrn97aDP