Arts Beyond the Classroom

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Saturday at The National Portrait Gallery

from peter sanders | Feb 8, 2010 peter sanders

Madeleine, you're a star! Thank you for your guidance around the NPG. It was great to see the Taylor Wessing Prize exhibition - such a range of pictures but as someone said, there was a tendency for them to be a bit dismal.

I don't know what anyone else chose as their favourite pic but for me it was the poor man with chickenpox. It was such an ordinary subject but the photographer seemed to show himself very exposed and vulnerable. It said so much more than just a spotty man but they were all great and I look forward to seeing what we can come up with.

Luba, Elizaveta and Kesenia, well done for making it to the gallery and I'm so sorry you were so sick as soon as you got into the exhibition Luba. Maybe it was the photographs! I do hope you feel better now.

Maggie and Meyrem have probably been arrested now for climbing on the lions in Trafalgar Square so that Olivia and Zera could take their picture. Did you get a photo of the police taking them away?

See you all on Thursday at the blogging workshop. So get blogging!

 



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