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As you get older, you feel like you are seeing the same shows in the same cities by the same artists, sometimes in a couple of cities if you move around, they move with you. That doesn't matter, really great art outperforms nostalgia. I remember a big Bonnard show at the old Tate, didn't love it the...

Both good, but a little pricey for just a room of drawings. Pity Egon didn't live longer.

Brilliant! Hope Cusk gets mores out like this and Outline soon. Not sure about the Man Ray covers though. The books read like life, fresh and witty. Hard to do justice in this clumsy review. Occasionally her stories about builders and hairdressers have a hint of middle-class fantasy. But read this.

Full disclosure: my photo was rejected for this! One thing I wonder as I wander among all the high def pictures of people with sorry lives is Does an interesting/tragic subject make a good portrait? I liked the picture of a girl on her mobile phone because it was ordinary and not super sharp. Is pho...

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/beyond-caravaggio

One of those shows where the headline artist has a few paintings, and the rest are under the influence. Still it's a perfectly agreeable show of chiaroscuro. And the Caravaggios do stand out.

Not bad. Not great. One of those artists that painter love to love.

disappointing ribs, not tender, spicy, fatty or tasty enough. a bit dry. The chicken was overpriced and flavourless.

Very enjoyable for those who remember amigas and commodores. Possibly also for those who don't.

near the Rothko room are some galleries full of paintings and sculptures. there are windows with natural light coming in. You can wander around looking at some good things (trying to block the sound of clicks and beeps from digital shutters) and for once the welling hatred of TM is not there. Bravo ...

The jingo only brits matter coverage fails to obscure the joy and tragedy of great sport.

Not his best. Scrubby paint doesn't do much. The colours are a bit grimey. And the cool calligraphic images blown up or repeated don't zing like i remember. Perhaps an off day for me looking. I missed milton avery.

see Old Tate Modern
Absolute disdain for art.

Good. Like her varied styles in this. The video strains for artistic credibility but at least she's (very) ambitious. And I found the sound quality excellent streaming via Bluetooth from my phone to speaker! Who knew?

Another one of those dark dysfunctional family tv shows, as watchable as all the rest, but lacking punch or real truth.

Pretty good. Her own observations and experiences are the best bit and you're left wanting more of that and less of the potted lit history. I'll drink to that!

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/performing-camera Not very good. A third of the pictures are of unclothed women, which is a bit retro (even if it's often naked women for some other noble purpose). There are lots of dull photos of interesting things (at the time), in black fra...

Actually not bad. Apart from the terrible voiceover, Jlaw and De Niro are good, and refreshing to have a female protagonist and no romance, the suburban US life is well-realised in its 80s glory.

The worst bit is hannah as teacher

Fascinating. All the strange warping which is family. Old pointless battles rehashed. An alien England and politics. Massively readable.

I thought this film was cliched shit..slowpaced and with little feel for how strange nyc would have been for an immigrant probably cos they had no money for city scenes

Bridge of spies was complete crap. Amazing that this floppy schmaltzy nonsense is even reviewed by film critics. WHAT IS THE POINT OF FILM REVIEWERS, have they given up?? Here are some examples of reviews: But when a film is as enjoyable as this one, its timing so sweet, and its atmosphere conjured ...

thanks CAP. the ds portrait is mannered in usual way, with the background just some space in the background!

Bad Painter. Good Sculptor. I loved the lumps, small bronze mountains, of men with their heads in skinny profile. A kind of dimensional head fuck. The paintings looked sub-Bacon, very dated feel, just the same existentialist style applied again and again. The composition static, the figure bang in t...

Sort of OK, if you have 80s nostalgia, a bit porkies, but more freaks and geeks, with a sentimental streak. Not sure what the tone is, but it's mildly diverting.

another pointless place serving the usual expensive nonsense like a thimble of pulled pork or ribs smothered in sauce or buns or whatever's today's fad. They were out of sake and the cocktails were mediocre, and you eat something that you could make better yourself or must have been good somewhere o...

a touch of the graham sutherlands

I hate the tate modern, oh it's good that there's a big modern art museum in London don't get me wrong, but the whole place reeks of contemp(t) for the art itself and respect for moving people around and selling souvenirs. The world goes pop isn't very good, a rag bag of pop art from around the glob...

I felt like I'd seen most of it before, take a contemporary form (furniture, vitrine, chandelier, pile) and add a bit of knowing Chinese cliché, or worthy politics, throw in some crafty production values to give a pleasing aesthetic. Can't remember where I've seen the joined up crazy tables, but cer...

Not the double life of Veronique, or Benjamin button, but the sort of hokey nonsense that I enjoy. Blake Lively plays a woman who never ages, which means she ends up going out with the son of an old lover (h. ford). The mess of this situation is never explored. And the ridiculous portentous voiceove...

brave for standing up to oppressive Chinese govt. but shit banksyish art. http://www.randian-online.com/np_feature/getting-over-ai-weiwei/ Paul Gladston http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/exhibitions/ai-weiwei-at-the-royal-academy-exhibition-review-high-on-spectacle-but-sometimes-weiwei-seems-like-a...

Outstanding. About 12 feet. One arm missing. Marble offering to poseidon. A beautiful man. Knees and thighs carved expressively. With all the people gawping and photoing and noising, it stands silent and awesome. The athens arch. Museum is wonderful. The shop an afterthought. Cool room after room of...

where's CAP gone?

was looking forward, but filled with clichés and no illumination. Who were these guys, what made them special/ how DID they get outta compton? or better what does the violence they reflect/describe/ sometimes seem to encourage mean in terms of race/class/place? Instead we get some stuff about contra...

The Parthenon and other temples are very beautiful. Athens is wonderful, no high rises, everything to scale, African or eastern light or something, and the madding crowd of tourist worship self at the acropolis, which is right. But why oh why do they not serve chilli sauce with their souvlakia and g...

Not very good. Vince and colin take up the mantle. And they can't inject the clichéd dialogue any energy. The background isn't as beguiling either. All big portent without potent.

Sonia gets three stars. Agnes gets one. Strangely the wall plaque refers to sonia in the first person. Agnes really is thin. Just wobbly pencil and pastel bands. Sonia has more meat in the soup. With time most old abstraction looks good . A little yellowing and crazing helps to bring history into th...

Entry: optimism, new place, good reviews, regional, highly recommended. this is going to be good, despite patronising waitress seating you at group table when the place is empty. Despite sub-school chairs and rickety trestle tables. despite the inability of the bar staff to make basic cocktails. Pri...

In the past have pooh-poohed it, now decided it's very good, esp. the parker posey episodes, captures some of new yorks magic.

not very good, good only in the road linearity of it, the refugees from Americas next top model are rubbish, mad max is rubbish, charlize is wooden, some energy is about it though.

excellent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjgBuXUW44Q

Always wanted to see this. And been interested in philly cheese steaks. They've moved the collection into facsimilish spaces. More accessible but more boring too. The gallery staff are very nice even if the city seems somewhat lost. The collection is salon hang and mixed with barnes bits and pieces....

Incredibly slick. Like a beautifully made ad for a certain type of oxbridge englishness. All stoicism and bee stung lips and pimmish punts. And it carries you along. Until at the end you realise you've been watching complete oscar worthy shit. They've reduced a real brave great hard remarkable strug...

been disappointed with the final series, but this one was great, gripping, odd, beautiful.

Reading some again because of new biography. Why is he good?

finally like it.

too many longueurs but still good

soapy florida rubbish, Overextended, but still watchable, barely.

39.99. Good. If you sliced it thinly and put it in a fancy london restaurant would be 15 quid for scraps.

Hipster buddy movie plus getting old. Sounded promising but was clichéd and thinly characterised. The explicatory ending was particularly bad.

Great. They've got one in order. Stumpy figures like brueghel. Hands and feet. Goya is one of the few to make people really float and fly. Nightmares of course. Your bum exposed in your minds eye.