Anish Kapoor at the Royal Academy

[Cloo]

We went to this the other week on a Friday night- great stuff, really good use of the space as well. Try to catch it before it closes!

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

I really enjoyed this. I went with a friend who was a friend of the RA and I think I'm going to have to go back and see it again. Some of the stuff was immersive and quite dizzying, you really feel sucked into them. The reflective pieces were great fun and I enjoyed watching some children giggling at themselves in them.
I found quite a few of them gynaecological this might just be my own warped perception but I was thinking of orifices and fallopian tubes frequently as I meandered around.
ShiftyJunior would love this exhibition so I'm going to try to bring him along.

Do check out the Wild Things exhibition too, I thought that was fantastic and I now feel inspired to make things again
Both of these exhibitions were small though, the Tate usually lays on a much bigger exhibition for the ticket price. I might have felt a bit hard done by if I'd paid for the ticket.
I am debating about whether I should become a friend of RA... hmmm... Royal Academy poster should give us all discounts at the very least...

 

[teuchter]

I found quite a few of them gynaecological

When I was there, there was a chap wandering around whilst on his mobile phone to someone and he stood in front of one of the pieces (I'm sure you can guess which one) and said very loudly "I'M STANDING IN FRONT OF A GIANT V*****A", Dom Joly style but quite seriously.

Everyone pretended nothing had happened and continued about their business as is the British Way.

 

[teuchter]

Would be a first class case study in the generation of authentic brand ambassadors for the digital world, harnessing the power of social media, utilising trusted community members for endorsement. Etc.

oh yes.

I feel that Royal Academy person is not fully harnessing the power of social media in this instance; certainly they are not fully utilising trusted community members for endorsement.

 

[quimcunx]

When I was there, there was a chap wandering around whilst on his mobile phone to someone and he stood in front of one of the pieces (I'm sure you can guess which one) and said very loudly "I'M STANDING IN FRONT OF A GIANT V*****A", Dom Joly style but quite seriously.

Everyone pretended nothing had happened and continued about their business as is the British Way.

Are you worried your servants might be reading this, tweakster?



Is the Wild Things thing also at the RA, shifty?

 

[innit]

We went last week, it was stupendous

looked like a great exhibition for kids too, they were loving it.

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

When I was there, there was a chap wandering around whilst on his mobile phone to someone and he stood in front of one of the pieces (I'm sure you can guess which one) and said very loudly "I'M STANDING IN FRONT OF A GIANT V*****A", Dom Joly style but quite seriously.

Thank heavens for that!

Is the Wild Things thing also at the RA, shifty?

Yup and I thought it was very good, but very very small. You can see 60% of the exhibition from the entrance.

Oh and one other thing that pissed me off was that if you want a booklet to read about the pieces on display you've got to pay for it That's just not right *shakes head* wouldn't happen at the Tate...

 

[clicker]

Oh and one other thing that pissed me off was that if you want a booklet to read about the pieces on display you've got to pay for it That's just not right *shakes head* wouldn't happen at the Tate...

Quite agree.....at the Waterhouse exhibition a couple of months ago in the RA, there were big,thick,information jammed booklets at the entrance to every individual room....a pile of them in fact in a wall mounted display....you picked one up, walked about and read the story behind each painting....at the Anish Kapoor I think either someone couldnt be arsed to write it up...or it was an added expense on top of the admittance fee....the exhibition was small it wouldnt have taken long to throw a sheet together giving some info about each exhibit......I declined to buy a booklet out of pure churlishness and we made up our own interpretations....having said that the kids did love this exhibition and declared it their fave of all time.....and they've been to a lot!

 

[beeboo]

Went late on the last night on Friday...along with half of the rest of the world...but was pleased to get to see it. LOVED both of the red wax things, particularly the 'train'. Would have been better if it hadn't been jam packed with people taking photos and poking at the wax.

Entertainingly, on trying to find the opening times for the last night I discovered that the RA had posted on twitter and facebook that there were free bags and signed posters to be had for anyone who asked for them when at the ticket office on Friday evening. So when I got to the front the front of the queue I said "I heard there were free bags and things, have you still got any of them?" To which the response was handing over a poster and wandering off to find one of the bags.

Then the woman on the next till grabbed the guy who was serving me and hissed "she didn't say 'poster', you can't give her one of the posters...take it back". So he took the poster back.

I waited a moment, then said "can I have a poster please?". Begrudgingly he handed it back

Then the people behind me in the queue cottoned on to what was happening and I expect the rest of the posters and bags were snapped up in minutes. And I've got an exhibition poster signed by Anish Kapoor which is pretty