Monthly Archives: October 2016

Sunday, a Famous Art Fair

Life after Stonehenge included Tycho’s Saturday eve return and a prodigious downloading of photos while our intrepid host made it to the Sunday farmers’ market [no sardines, but calamari for later] then dropped us to explore the desultory sculpture exhibition outside Frieze on our own

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…the vintage Oldenburg wasn’t too bad; the wonders within the tents were multitudinous and

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initially distinguished by a very fine pop-up incarnation of Caravan restaurant for lunch with not one but two coffees before [wowee!] rocketing out for

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plenty plentiful stuff…

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like little simple paintings from Japan

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virtual reality from who knows where

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a post-Tracey Emin emanation…

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South American looking work from…South America

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Commercial Activities

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psycho-delia, way better than Frank Stella…not that he would know or notice the difference;

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the DFT [Designer Faux Thriftstore] look…

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Etel Adnan, still at it…

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Ken Price, no longer…

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red coats…

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a William Kentridge fan club…

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red coats…

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Version 2

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Toba Khedoori, always amazing…

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Stanley Whitney, about whom I’d been hearing but never seeing, there on the right and living up to his belated hype; good for him!

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…mysteries of the loo

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…and of the sales floor;

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would you buy art [or even a sandwich] from this person?

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We wandered, or zig-zagged, until, air circulation not being exactly great,

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Version 2

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near-suffocation ensued

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so bolted for the exit and went seeking [and finding, at Brora] Scottish cashmere,

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running across a last Figaro along the way…while in the Hills of Hampstead, BAD Ferrari…

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and, for dinner, calamari.

Last days to come.

M