This afternoon Chris took me to the Vanity Fair exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. I'm full of cold so not on top form, but it was nice to see the exhibition - well, it would've been nicer if they'd included the photo of Buffy Sainte-Marie and Richie Havens...It's an odd exhibition, in a way, photos of the great and good next to photos of the merely famous next to photos of rich people's daughters and suchlike. It was also a strange selection of photos - why include a huge blow up of a pretty bog-standard photo of Maggie Thatcher or a large photo of Jennifer Aniston with half her face obscured so she could be any reasonably good looking young woman? A mixture of the iconic and the so what? Still, it was a nice way to fill in a damp Sunday afternoon.
My favourite photo is of our table in the cafe after the exhibition with muffins scoffed and coke and tea waiting to be drunk. This is my contribution to art of the future.
that is art sweetie
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