As ever it's been an exciting week on the Tyne. Last weekend myself and Zoe went to visit some close friends and camped on the Northumbrian coast; it was a bit windy but much fun nevertheless. Today, those same friends are visiting Newcastle and we've just been to the Baltic, Newcastle-Gateshead's contemporary art gallery.
The Baltic itself is amazing but, more often that not, the exhibitions are a little disappointing. This time however there were two installations that even a Philistine such as myself could appreciate. Firstly there was The Space - Time Tunnel, a 35 metre tunnel of newspapers, magazines and 66 television screens broadcasting global television programmes. Secondly there was an exhibition called Still Lives, by Sam Taylor Wood.
The most famous peice in Taylor-Woods exhibition is a video recording of David Beckham sleeping, but of much more interest was a series of photographs, entitled Crying Men. Over two years Taylor-Wood met a bunch of celebs and asked them to cry for the camera. The results are impressive and a good challenge to the male stereotype.
Nb. I know you shouldn't take photos in these things but I felt I owed it to the blogosphere!
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