I went to see Turner’s “Blue Rigi” at Tate Britain yesterday. I don’t know if it’s worth 5 million quid, but it is astonishingly good, all translucency and shimmer and early, yawning, quiet atmosphere rendered in washy paint. I’m proud of the great British public for getting off their normally lazy fat arses to save something of some worth for the good of our artless, godless and hopeless children.
They’ve got a whole exhibition of Rigi paintings, sketches and other Turner stuff until 25th march. Recommended! 5 stars!! Etc etc.
While you’re there you can also see Mark Wallinger’s recreation of Brian Haw’s anti-war protest, before it was so callously and cynically dismanteld at 3am by the fuzz.
And once you’re done you can walk round the corner and see the empty plinth in Victoria Gardens where Rodin’s “Burghers of Calais” normally sits. It’s quite a plinth.