Bank Holiday

Up to Scotland on Bank Holiday Monday to look at an archive and possible donation. Have a very enjoyable lunch with the owner and her other half. Train to Edinburgh and catch the Francesca Woodman show at the Ingleby Gallery  next to the Waverley Station - the relationship of the body to nature and man-made space and objects or animate/inanimate is disturbing - perhaps made more so by her suicide. The Fruitmarket Gallery is en route to the hotel so I call in at Willie Doherty's show Ghost Story & Buried. Willie shows with Matt's Gallery, so I had seen 'Ghost Story' before. 'Buried' is a sort of pendant piece. The next day is a meeting on Collaborative PhDs at RCAHMS Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. I'm on the panel of non-Higher Education Institutions hosts/collaborative institutions - will all PhDs in 10 years be collaborative?

Thursday night after a long hard day interviewing I call in at the Frith Street Gallery opening of Ingrid Calame's show, 'Step on the crack, break your mother's back'. She collects marks collected during a residency at the Albrecht-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo (which I visited in October 2001 and almost drowned on my way back to my hotel). The colour pencil on mylar drawings sometimes result in bold and bright abstract oil on aluminium paintings, enlarged details from the effaced industrial legacy of Buffalo. (Did you know buffalos never got to Buffalo - its etymology is "beau" "fleuve"?)

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[Jim]

I saw the Francesca Woodman show down at the Tate Modern and thought it was awesome. Some of the reviews in the standard were not too good which I found surprising.