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June 05, 2008
We popped up to Liverpool today to see the Klimt exhibit at the Tate. It's a decent enough exhibition but a tad misleading in that I'd wager that less than 50% of it is actually the work of Gustav Klimt. Not that I have anything against that. In fact I was pleasantly surprised to see some of the Weiner Werkstatte [etc] pieces... But the way the show was billed would lead you to believe that the majority of the work would be Klimt's.One floor is in fact not even original work but a replica of the Beethoven Frieze! Still, I imagine it all got put on here, rather than London, as part of the City Of Culture malarkey! Well, I think you got short changed.
Think I'll go to Vienna instead.
Far better, in fact, was The Twentieth Century: How It Looked & How It Felt exhibit on the 1st and 2nd floors.
We spent the rest of the afternoon wandering around the Albert Dock avoiding the rain and eventually trying to find our way through the work being done to extend the Leeds & Liverpool Canal to get to Malmaison for dinner. It was worth finding though. Pistou, duck egg and asparagus soldiers starters were followed by guinea fowl with chorizo & sun-dried tomato risotto and Herdwick lamb. And a bloody good bottle of Etim, a particularly nice Spanish Grenache.
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