2009-12-31
Things To See And Do 2009
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Being a probably incomplete list of exhibitions, days out, conferences and similar I’ve attended this year. If I did this more regularly and with reviews, it’d be nice, I expect. No promises, though.
January:
- Design Cities, Alan Aldridge @ Design Museum
- Late @ Science Museum
- Bookcamp @ Hub, Islington
- (void) are 10 / slub @ Fleapit
February:
- Late @ Tate Britain
- Taking Liberties @ British Library
- LTM Depot, Acton
- Shunt
March:
- Richard Seifert talk by RA @ RI
- Late @ Tate Britain
- Art of the Poster @ London Transport Museum
- pixelh8 @ Bletchley Park
- San Francisco:
- Cable Car Museum
- Coit Tower
- California Academy of Sciences
- de Young Museum
- Railway Museum
- Hangar One Distillery
- MOMA
April:
- Colne Valley Railway @ Sible Hedingam, Essex
May:
- Roni Horn aka Roni Horn @ Tate Modern
- bodyspacemotionthings @ Tate Modern
June:
- National Museum of Computing @ Bletchley Park
- Nocturne @ Smithfield
- Yndi Halda @ Union Chapel
- Interesting Picnic @ Regent’s Park
- LTM ‘38 Heritage Stock @ Edgware (- Kennington and back)
- Apollo Live @ The Science Museum
- Sputnik @ Greenwich Observatory
- Fous de Bassin @ Millwall Outer Dock
- Various performances, Dancing City @ Canary Wharf
- Moorcock, Moore, Sinclair @ British Library
July
- Opentech 2009
- Buzz Aldrin @ RFH
- bldgblog launch @ AA
- 800 Years @ London Bridge
- Bassline @ Barbican
- Radical Nature @ Dalston Mill
- London Cafes @ Savoy, Hackney
August
- Seizure @ Elephant & Castle
- Radical Nature @ The Barbican
- Playing the Building @ The Roundhouse
- Walking In My Mind @ Hayward Gallery (and others)
- Richard Long @ Tate Britain
- Depot Open Day @ Upminster Depot
- The North-West Passage @ NMM
September
- Walthamstow Open Artists
- Interesting 2009
- London Open House:
- Broadgate Tower
- St Botolph’s Without-Aldgate
- Barbican Behind The Scenes
- Sands Film Studio
- Walthamstow Town Hall
- Croydon Airport
- No 1 Croydon
- LJ Kruzer @ Union Chapel
- Medals of Dishonor @ British Museum
- London Posters @ V&A
October
- Super Contemporary & others @ Design Museum
- Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ‘Dune’ @ The Drawing Room
- Guided tour @ Holden’s Piccadilly line stations
- Chord @ Kingsway Tram Subway
- Pop Life @ Tate Modern
- Londonium Pedo
- York:
- York Art Gallery
- National Railway Museum
- Ghost Walk
- York Model Railway
- Locomotion @ Shildon
- John Gay @ Guildhall Art Gallery
- How It Is @ Tate Modern
- Gustav Metzger @ Serpentine
- Oil Tanks @ Tate Modern
- Polaroid: Exp.09.10.09 @ Atlas Gallery
- Damien Hirst @ Wallace Collection
- Playful 2009
- 1000 Days to the Olympics @ BT Tower
November
- Suburbia @ London Transport Museum
- Authority to Remove @ Tate Modern
- Fireworks @ Alexandra Palace
- Kevin Slavin @ RSA
- Berlin:
- Reichstag Building
- Daimler Contemporary
- Bauhaus Archiv
- Harald Schmitt & F.C. Gundlach @ Martin-Gropius-Bau
- Deutsches Technikmuseum
- The Berlin Story
- Sophie Calle @ Whitechapel Gallery
December
- The Hoerengracht @ National Gallery
- Shake It @ The Pump House Gallery, Battersea
- Kirkaldy Testing Museum
- The Bunker @ The Barbican
- Anish Kapoor @ Royal Acadamy
- Stuart Haygarth @ Haunch of Venison
- Design Real @ The Serpentine
- Decode @ V&A
- Tatsuo Miyajima @ Lisson Gallery
- Ed Ruscha @ Hayward Gallery
- Deiter Rams @ Design Museum
- Horniman Museum
- John Baldessari @ Tate Modern
- Photography Prize @ National Portrait Gallery
- Landscape Photographer of the Year @ National Gallery
- Turner Prize & Turner and the Masters @ Tate Britain
