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I have just found these photographs I took few months ago in the Underground.

I forgot to tell you something

It happened in London one morning. 

Looking east

Rodchenko & Popova, Defining Constructivism at the Tate Modern Shah 'Abbas, The remaking of Iran and Babylon, Mith and Reality at the British Museum, About Byzantium 330–1453 at the Royal Academy of Arts and Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East at the Saatchi Gallery.

Five exhibitions on now in London offer an insight into Asian cultures.

Probably it is just a coincidence, but it is still a good opportunity to better understand or discover cultures apparently so far from us.

I wonder how people would have been positive about engaging a war against a country if they only had known a bit more about it.

This makes me think of Abidin Travels, installation made by Iraqi artist Adel Abidin for the Venice Biennale 2007, and about how much of the great cultural history of Iraq remains now.

Barton Hargreaves @ Jerwood Space

Jerwood Space New Public Art Commision

4.30-8pm, 10 march 2009

Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, London SE1 0LN

Barton Hargreaves has been selected for a new public artwork commission. the new work, titled "In Situ", will be on show from March 2009 on the frontage of the biulding. Life size figures will appear to be jumping, climbing and interacting with the architecture whilst subtly emerging from the brickwork.

The artwork will only be available to view in natural light so please go early.

David Thorne: Overdue account

I would say this is about the value of things...with a touch of wit. But there is something more, his disarmingly innocent behavior has a disturbing effect in the everyday way of living. We are used to certain codes of behaving and disrupting them is one of the ways to make us aware of some given attitudes we have when we deal with other people.

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