Antiquity

There was an article in the Telegraph Magazine last Saturday that got me excited - the Terracotta Army is coming to London! Well, maybe not all the thousands of figures, but some. The British Museum is hosting the exhibition, The First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army , for several months so there's plenty of time for us to go and see it...several times, perhaps...
(13th September -- 6th April)

On the subject of up-coming exhibitions, there's one on Millais' works at the Tate Britain to look forward to. It's a shame the 'promoting' image is his Mariana painting, though - I can't see it without thinking of the poem to which it is a tribute. Tennyson's text was entirely ruined for me by an awful rendition experienced in a lecture in 2005 - the (slightly varying) refrain of:

She only said, 'My life is dreary,
He cometh not,' she said;
She said, 'I am aweary, aweary,
I would that I were dead!

is haunting now, and in all the wrong ways. Thanks go to Mr Lecturing Man, not.
Otherwise, so long as no-one recites that poem at the exhibition, it promises to be a good one.
(26th September -- 13th January)

One I'd recommend for its variety is the Work, Rest & Play exhibit at the National Gallery. I saw this one when it was in Bristol, and it was a curious collection. Something for everyone and quite a funky subject, really. I hope they put it all in a single lot of rooms, though - in Bristol it was housed all over the place, and I missed a bit of it.
(On till 14th October)

Hooray for living somewhere within easy reach of London again! Three cheers for that.