On a whim we ventured into the smog to visit the Tate Modern for the first time. Lordy it was rather busy.
Modern art is hard work with two boys in tow, but they were both suitably impressed by the long, snaking crack that has been cut into the turbine floor (flaw he-he) by Doris Salcedo. It runs the entire length of the large room, but was fairly shallow and looked rather manufactured close up - a little lacking in drama (unlike the photo above). For me the most interesting bit was watching the crowds of people flow slowly along the length of the crack, peering in, dipping their feet in etc. etc.
The Tate also run top-notch activities for families, so we signed up and ended up playing a board-game with question cards based around the paintings in two rooms on the third floor. The boys were amused and it really got them looking at the art which was shamelessly conceptual, but on the debit side it took up all of our interest-time and we had to bail out to find some lunch before we all got fractious. Unfortunately the facilities for feeding knee-highs (waist-highs now I suppose) was not so extensive.
Have to go back just to check out the other floors another time....
More later
Modern art is hard work with two boys in tow, but they were both suitably impressed by the long, snaking crack that has been cut into the turbine floor (flaw he-he) by Doris Salcedo. It runs the entire length of the large room, but was fairly shallow and looked rather manufactured close up - a little lacking in drama (unlike the photo above). For me the most interesting bit was watching the crowds of people flow slowly along the length of the crack, peering in, dipping their feet in etc. etc.
The Tate also run top-notch activities for families, so we signed up and ended up playing a board-game with question cards based around the paintings in two rooms on the third floor. The boys were amused and it really got them looking at the art which was shamelessly conceptual, but on the debit side it took up all of our interest-time and we had to bail out to find some lunch before we all got fractious. Unfortunately the facilities for feeding knee-highs (waist-highs now I suppose) was not so extensive.
Have to go back just to check out the other floors another time....
More later
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