Sunday was a grey grizzly day .... a day where you need to be indoors. The Baltic beckoned.... especially as it's hosting the Turner Prize this year, which is usually only seen in London.
On our way there we noticed that something was happening on the Gateshead Millennium Bridge .... it was moving!
Slowly the whole bridge tilted.... and crowds gathered round to watch.
A little blue boat sailed through ..... a pleasure cruiser .... a bit wet today though, I would have thought!
We wandered round the Turner Prize exhibition with other confused people ... to quote Andrew Searle (more of him later) .... "It's the Turner Prize.... it's meant to be confusing!" No photographs allowed, as usual, but I've got a video clip at the end of this post if you're desperate to see the entries!
Back to normality .... the Baltic has the best museum shop I know ... full of stylish delights ....
We both fancied these lunch boxes, but they were very pricey, so we resisted temptation.
After a tasty lunch in the bistro, we nipped across the car park to The Sage,
which is a wonderful music venue ... the interior of the building is stunning ....
with great views across to the iconic Tyne Bridge.
We noted that they do a very reasonably priced Sunday Roast Dinner, so we need to go back another time. to test it out!!!
If you click the link above you can see a video from the Guardian of the four entries for this year's Turner prize..... it starts after an advert.
It's quite long, but if you stick with it, it'll save you a journey to Gateshead!!!!
Comments please .... on this evidence, who do you think will win?
Love this post as I'm from Northumberland myself. Didn't realise The Baltic is hosting The Turner Prize this year.
ReplyDeleteI love Newcastle and Gateshead too - I was born in Gateshead.
I think it should be Shaw but then I'm a stoggy traditionalist and don't like the modern stuff.
ReplyDeleteI've been a bit absent from "blog land" for the past few weeks. It is nice to be back and to catch up with all of your wonderful adventures.
ReplyDeleteI like the Martin Boyce (the paper leaves and the hanging shapes) and think I could probably live with that. (Which is sort of how I value art - could I bear to have it in my living room/garden/office/wherever?)
ReplyDeleteVideo isn't art to me. (In the way that I want it to be.) It's not for galleries.
The Coventry ones are scary - because I used to live round there. I'd like to have a look at that more closely.
I don't get that messy painty one at all - so that will probably win!
My two boys got to press the button that opened that bridge not so long ago :-)
ReplyDeleteOooooooooooh not far away at all!
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