1 The Estorick Collection, though charming, is unnecessarily cruel. £5 ticket price, £8 minimum spend on cards. Fortunately its only a couple of minutes walk to an ATM. Still, if you're on your own, take cash, or get some from near the tube station.
2 Still not a fan of London!
3 If you're going to Ice Age don't let half term put you off as they limit numbers. This does mean booking in advance is a very good idea.
4 I don't like being in a train carriage crammed to bursting with Chelsea fans - especially not the ones who are drinking at 10 on a Sunday morning.
5 I wandered through the Impressionists looking for Friedrich at the National - egad! Degas understood colour! Its a while since I've seen one in the flesh - reproductions suck.
6 In the topmost rooms at Estorick are some other modern Italian pieces. You know Umberto Boccioni? The Futurist responsible for the famous bronze of a man moving? There are 3 pre-Futurist drawings there. Delicate, sensitive, rigorous yet full of life - one in particular might be best described as Whistler's Anti. It has the same pose from a different point of view but it is dancing and vibrant and intimate and dark. Apologies for the reflections on the image, I didn't take a camera and its near impossible to find online. The other one the link in the picture goes to is even more likeable.7 Frederic Church. Where have you been all my life? The finished work leaves me cold, but the sketches... ooh
8 I have the answer to my own question about Friedrich a few weeks ago - I didn't pay attention because the example in London is numbingly mechanical and stuffed full of over blown symbolism. Still intrigued by the woodland one though - I think it's in Germany so I may never know if I like it in the flesh or not.
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