It's all falling into place... On the very day that Bryan declares a neo-Dadaist Recipe of the Day, a flyer comes through my door for the Dada Chinese Takeaway (honestly - I'd post a link if they had a website). This is glad news - we were all getting fed up with the Surrealist takeaway (nothing but fish, and pancakes with clock faces). Here's an example of neo-Dadaist food if ever there was one - food you can drive...
And while we're talking art, I forced myself to visit an exhibition at the Royal Academy yesterday which labours under the blatantly come-and-get-it title of Impressionists At The Seaside. It turns out to contain several of Courbet's seascapes - stunning works which really need to be seen - and three wholly unexpected Whistler gems (all from America). Much else of interest too - and the Impressionist stuff mostly confined to one heaving room.
Enough art- I'm ringing the Dada takeaway. Got some food I want taking away.
Thursday, July 26, 2007
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
most chinese food looks accidental. sorry, i mean looks like an accident.
ReplyDeletebut how come chinese takeaways always look the same? there's an excessively brylcremed bloke behind a massive and over-high counter on which seemingly has little purpose - possibly because it is impractically high - and the suspicious gaze of an old woman behind a small serving hatch beyond and a telly in the corner shows old marx brothers films.
ah, yes, high street dadaism at work.
Chinese chip shops are a fine expression of postmodern Britain. There's a poem about that, you know.
ReplyDeletePancakes with clock faces are not Dada, they are surrealist. Even Nige nods. A Dada pancake would be a small horse.
ReplyDeleteThose pancakes, clever clogs, were from the Surrealist takeaway. I rest my case.
ReplyDeleteAh, my mistake.
ReplyDelete"One heaving room" -- I love it. That is precisely what a room of impressionist landscapes would look like!
ReplyDeleteToday I'm taking my son downtown to see the King Tut exhibit at our science museum. Lots of money for a ticket to see how wealthy the Egyptians were back in the day. But he'll like it. This is the boy who got a book on decoding hieroglyphs when he was 7 and began writing in ancient script.
Did this exhibit come through London already? I know they all do. We're getting the Renoir landscapes in Sept. and I'm sure you already had it -- Bryan made disparaging remarks on this blog about those paintings.
at least twice, susan. quite recently and I remember queuing to see Tooting Car Moon as a boy. the second time didn't include the gold head which is all anyone wanted to see.
ReplyDeleteIan, as long as the Chinese food doesn't look Occidental you're probably fine.
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