Anti Apartheid

During the Summer I visited the Anti Apartheid Exhibition at The Museum of London as part of research for a summer camp I was planning. After previously visiting Robbin Island (where Mandela was imprisoned) and the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg I thought I had seen it all. However this exhibition took a different stance on things and showed through imagery the campaign from England. The campaign used every means of medium possible including badges, posters, rally's, concerts, stickers, T-shirts, mugs, photographs etc.

For it's time this campaign was extremely impressive. The Posters were clever, powerful & consistent. They targeted the big businesses of the time such as Barclays and Tesco. This negative advertising caused the companies to suffer however much they tried to push their own positive advertisements.

At the end of the exhibition was a wall of drawings on paper T-shirts of people thoughts and opinions of the content of the exhibition. I thought this was a nice finishing touch and I certainly enjoyed my visit.

In Canpbell's Soup Can

I went to see an exhibition of Celebrity Portraits From The Andy Warhol Factory at the Tel Aviv Museum of Arts. I particularly enjoyed Carl Fisher's piece of Andy Warhol in the famous Campbell's Soup can. I later discovered that this was done before Photoshop was invented and therefore is an ingenious piece of art.

In the same exhibition was Mick Jagger, 1970, photographed by Gerald Malanga. Malanga worked very closely with Warhol during the mid-sixties. This particular image is one of his most famous photographs and is internationally recognized. Having grown up in a Household who idolizes Mick Jagger I feel this iconic picture conveys the genius photographer that Malanga is.

World Leaders at the Saatchi Gallery

Sun Yuan and Peng Yu have produced 'Old Person's Home' which is currently being shown at the Saatchi Gallery in London. I thought this was an amusing piece and highly realistic. The characters resemble world leaders in their old age who randomly crash into one another.

Banksy's Latest Stunt

This is the latest stunt by Banksy. He has opened an exhibition of his work in Bristol's Museum. Still not revealing his identity the whole exhibition was kept a secret from the council and the general public until it opened this week. Banksy is responsible for his stunts on painting the West Bank Barrier and also for putting inflatable Guantanamo Bay prisoners at DisneyLand. He certainly is one of the most controversial artists of our time.