Hopeful that I'll hear tomorrow though. Watch this space.
Went to Liverpool last night to see the Klimt at The Tate. Nice pictures (I love the Beethoven Frieze) but the exhibition was padded out too much to disguise the fact that they didn't have that many original Klimt's to show (in my opinion). There was a lot of stuff about his patrons and also pictures hung that weren't even by him. Could have done better I felt. Went for a drink in the Pan American Bar first (OK) and The Azure bar afterwards (nice until they turned the music up). Impossible to get a coffee on Liverpool Lime Street Station at 2100 on a Saturday night which is frankly scandalous. And the train trip home was, let us say, interesting. Oh my God. The people getting on in order to get off at Deansgate Locks. It was never like that when I was a youngster... Liverpool has some really nice old buildings and will probably have some really nice new ones when they're finished. And somehow I expected that they'd have done all the building work before the Capital of Culture stuff so that visitors saw the best of the city not just a building site (which is pretty much what it is at the moment). Anyway, be nice to have the chance to work there (as a Grade 6!). That's all. J x
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I don't know you guys are never happy ..this is not London remember its liverpool ..and I think rhis exhibition was exceptionally well curated. The seccionist stuff was I thought completley integral and the comparison with other painters is a common theme in exhibitions a juan gris to a picasso..the beethoven frieze was incredible so gracefully minimalist and then the explosion of detail like a tapestry ...I for one am grateful I could see so many of his paintings in the flesh they completely blew me away the landscapes and the portraits and Jonathan still you give us no picures! All I can say is thank you Liverpool Tate I was delighted overwhelmed with their beauty they made me want to cry..and I so want to go to Vienna now.
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