Music
Kristin Hersh - Bloomsbury Theatre
Extracts of Paradoxical Undressing, plus songs including ‘Your Ghost’ and ‘Me and my Charms’ .
Books
Meet David Sedaris - recording for BBC Radio 4
His announcement that his final piece would be ‘Me talk pretty one day’ had to be re-recorded as the audience reacted ‘like a rock concert’, according to the producer. (Actually just multiple gasps of delight, which is not a sound loud enough to be heard at a rock concert, in my experience.)
Exhibitions
Natural History Museum - dinosaurs, birds, creepy crawlies, volcanoes
Lots very bright display boards which dwarfed and distracted from the objects in several of the galleries. I enjoyed the vitrine of humming birds most.
Victoria and Albert Museum – jewellery, theatre, Japan, China, Korea
The fashion and textile galleries are both closed currently.
Courtauld Gallery - permanent collection
I can’t believe I waited this long to look at Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Begere, or as I always think of it (with her ‘I care, but I’m knackered and I don’t want you to hit on me’ posture, her sad eyes and her sceptical pout) the patron saint of bar maids.
Detail from Edouard Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Begere
