| Friday 5 September, 2008 |
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What is it that's so attractive about a tortured soul? Sure, ambition, success, and charm are all winners. But in the presence of an intense artist-type, you still all go weak at the knees.
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Perhaps it's the existential scarring, the creative torment, the smouldering quotations from Picasso. Or maybe it's just the black turtle-necks.
I'd like to be the kind of art-lover who drops in on a gallery each week; who keeps abreast of the art scene and absorbs some lessons in smouldering from the masters. Really I do. But you know how London is. Scarcely enough time to breathe, let alone encounter some culture.
When almost a dozen museums went free back in 2001, it wiped out a perfectly good excuse. And now, with one of our favourites, the ICA, also dropping its entrance fee to all exhibits and its gorgeous bar, our artistic impediment is screwed. |
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But a man's got to eat, right? Well, with the much-hyped Bistrotheque pop-up, Flash, opening at the Royal Academy in November 1st, they've covered that one too.
Art for art's sake, then. And your belly's.
ICA, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH
Flash GSK Contemporary, The Royal Academy, 6 Burlington Gardens, London, W1S 3EX
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TODAY'S
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Groovy cats get together at this one day jazz event. 12:30pm - 6pm. Free. Bishops Square Amphitheatre, Brushfield Street, E1 6AA |
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Abrupt songs from London's most dysfunctional pop group. 7:30pm-2am, £6, The Luminaire, 311 High Rd, Kilburn NW6 7JR. |
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Clare Woods' British countryside in high gloss warp. 11am-6pm, Free. Stuart Shave/Modern art, 23-25 Eastcastle Street, W1W 8DF |
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Matthew McCaslin's hybrid world of nature and man in multi-disciplinary art. 12-6pm, Free. Fred Ltd, 45 Vyner Street, E2 9DQ. |
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