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Turner, Whistler, Monet at Tate Britain. Tate Britain sounds like some young pop diva, anyway she curated this exhibition with admirable skill beyond her years. The beauty of it lay in the series of works hung side by side particularly for me and my lovely wife Whistler's nocturnes over which he fought a ruinous even though successful libel suit with Ruskin who said they were crap, basically. The theme of the exhibition mostly being light and London, Whistler also dealt with darkness in which he caught a strange and powerful luminescence. Each of the artists found more from less as their careers went on. That's a story everyone should know.
We didn't bother taping any more of 'The Ring Cycle' from Covent Garden having glimpsed some of yesterday's ludicrous Dr.Who style costumes, sets and acting (I'm talking the 70's here not the new one which is actually rather good) I'll wait for the CD to hear the singing.