Murakami

One of the few pleasures of being in Frankfurt was escaping from the Bookfair, on Friday morning, to see an astonishing exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MMK) of work by Takashi Murakami.

An amazing show, which featured his Manga / Anime inspired painting, sculptures, installations and animations.

I tried so hard to take photos but was constantly thwarted by the security guards. These are all from Google.

I picked up this superb catalogue, a right weighty old tome, which accompanies the show.

Frieze

Beatrice and Denis stayed with us on Friday night and all four of us went to the Frieze Art Fair in Regents Park, on Saturday morning. A very impressive event and great fun. With acres of art from the major western art galleries, on such a huge scale, it was difficult to identify much in the way of quality. However, after the frustration of not being able to take photos at the Murakami show in Frankfurt on Friday, I happily snapped away and these were my highlights.

Frankfurt

I spent Thursday 16th and Friday 17th October in Frankfurt for the bookfair. These pictures give a pretty good idea of what I experienced.

Portobello Market

In between chores, odd jobs and housework, we popped over to Kensal Rise to take a look around the new Lexi cinema. It's an incredibly beautiful and well formed little cinema and I can't wait to see a movie there. After that we cycled to Portobello Road, Sunday Market, bought a new, Harris tweed, flat cap and took our photos outside a new shop at the corner of Goldbourne, which used to be Horace, where I bought my wedding ring.