The Tate

The Tate Modern might be the coolest museum I've ever been to - it's definitely top five, anyway.  You can take interactive coloring books and games throughout the exhibits; you can write the Tate a postcard, a selection of which are displayed on the permanent collection floor; if you read the notes on the sides of the escalators, you will learn interesting facts about modern art such as : Piet Mondrian, in addition to not using green in his art, refused to wear the color or to allow it in his work space.

 Two favorites.

I got there close to closing time, so I only had time to see one exhibit called "Poetry and Dream."  It was interestingly displayed and an interesting framework to give to a lot of famous, well-known pieces, or at least pieces by well known artists like Matisse, Picasso, and Bacon.

My favorite discovery at the Tate was Julião Sarmento, a Brazilian who works with "themes of memory, sexuality, transgression, morality and duality." An especially cool series was the illustration, through drawings, photographs and words, of a sentence from a love letter from James Joyce to his wife : "there is also a wild beast-like craving for every inch of your body, for every secret and shameful part of it, for every odour and act of it." Oh là là!

Julião Sarmento, Dublin-Trieste 2 December 1909

Ecs-tate-ic about art,
Maria