Mid-March

I have been really happy and eating a lot and having mad fun busy weekends every single weekend for the last month plus, but recently I keep feeling a huge gnawing ache from the fact that I haven't made it to any of the exhibitions on my to-do list this year, including Gerhard Richter which is now over.

It really cut me up when I realised that I had missed it. I can't say that I'm an expert or enthusiast about his work, or art in general, but I was looking forward to it for so long and there was nothing stopping me from going except pure laziness and stupid distractions. Being bored = not doing something interesting. Opportunity cost here is not only the time wasted but the possible fun/enrichment gained from doing something interesting. Doing what you want to do.

This feeling of urgency and desire for immediacy is taking over my brain, it runs through everything I do in my life these days. The night before I wrote this down and stuck it to my wall:

INCONTINENCE IS LAME

WHEN YOU DO NOT DO 

WHAT YOU CAN AND 

SHOULD DO THEN 

YOU ARE DEFINITELY 

FUCKED FOR LIFE

With that in mind I am making a list of what I want to and will do this Spring, hopefully in pleasant weather and more importantly with good company

1. Yayoi Kusama @ Tate Modern: Now - 5 June
2. Lucien Freud @ National Portrait Gallery : Now - 27 May
3. David Shrigley, Jeremy Deller @ Hayward Gallery : Until 13 May
4. Horiyoshi III @ Somerset House : 21 Mar - 1 July
5. Hampstead Heath
6. Primrose Hill
7. Burger & Lobster
8. Clean my roof (buy chillchairs)

That's all that I can think of now hopefully will add more in later days.

NYC #5: Wonder Walls

NYC #4: MOMA PS1 9/11

Really loved MOMA PS1 I wish there were more museums like that. Saw Roger Hiorn's atomized jet engine at their 9/11-themed exhibition and it just made me wonder.. how does one transport something like that??

NYC #3: Random Snaps

What a amazingly coherent set of pix

1, 2. James Turrell: Meeting, Moma PS1. Incredible site-specific installation, literally breathtaking.

3. Shake Shack + Madison Square Gardens = Best burger experience known to man

4. Classic Park Cheese - Soho Park (better than o.k.)

5. Best fucking sandwich in the world - Luke's Lobster

6. Saw this in the Museum of Arts and Design's jewelry exhibition... Great way to accessorize with cigs

If you wanna read more about the food go check out the NYC page here! 

Royal Observatory, Greenwich

Took a couple of photos at the Royal Observatory on Saturday. The green laser line indicates the Prime Meredian which is pretty cool. Greenwich is so pretty and spacious I wish the weather wasn't so grey and sad all the time now :(

NYC #1: MOMA

Still trying to get out of my philosophy-induced depression.. Feeling weird and listening to Nicole Atkins's The Way It Is, on loop. I almost feel as though the song describes my feelings but that just shows how unhinged I am right now. Anyway it's hard to take the song seriously when the music video is so nauseating.

Photos above: here are some of the beautiful things I saw at the MOMA back in September. MOMA is very high up on my list of favorite museums right now, I love the space and the collection is amazing. More NYC photos coming up soon! Also, hope everybody likes the new layout. It's cool.

V&A MUSEUM

Every time i go to the Victoria & Albert Museum it feels like I'm going there for the first time, which is probably why I love it so much. Went to see the Yohji Yamamoto exhibition which was... really harshly lit and full of fashion student types. Half the exhibition pieces were actually displayed around the museum outside of the main exhibition hall(which is surprisingly small), and finding them required a bit of navigational skills. It's likely that YY's work is better appreciated in a stark setting but I kind of like how his clothes stand out against the V&A's museum interiors.

Anyway that day we walked around the ceramics section. The contemporary ceramic art pieces are really pretty.

They are currently doing an exhibition about Aestheticism which I have to go see after my exams :(

p.s. the V&A museum cafe is gr8