Tate Modern

Two weekends ago I made an attempt to go to the Tate Modern to see the Yayoi Kusama exhibition with Rach, Ben and Archie. Probably not the best idea to go to a busy art gallery when you have only had 2 hours sleep...We spent a good half hour sitting on the floor looking at The Unilever Series by Tacita Dean in the Turbine Hall (shown above). It's a silent film projected onto a white monolith standing 13 metres tall, the idea is to celebrate the original techniques of analogue film-making. I don't really see why a film showing a pile of dirt, stairs and some walls with the occasional tree thrown in there is celebrating the art of analaogue film...but maybe that's why I'm not a film maker. Needless to say we didn't make it to the Kusama exhibition but headed to a pub instead. Bloody Mary's and Monopoly Deal.
At some point we also made it to the Wallace collection, much quieter and art I actually like...there were even a few Gainsborough's, Titian's, Rembrandt's and Poussin's stashed away.