Wednesday 9 June 2021

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I went out to see/listen to something! - Daniel Pioro and Katherine Tinker at Snape – really very beautiful, Daniel’s playing was so considered yet muscular, he brought something new to Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending, the stillness was exquisite. A trip to see Mathew Barney at the Hayward Gallery. I am such a fan with the Cremaster Cycle possibly topping my list - all-time-strange-and-indulgent-I-do-not-understand-work. The show has some extraordinary pieces, especially the frames! – meanwhile New Contemporaries at South London Gallery has less to recommend. Onto screens - The dog who wouldn’t be quiet – superbly odd. Riders of Justice – superbly funny. Managed to get through Time – gruelling - it should make everyone reconsider their criminal intentions, its simultaneously relentlessly grinding and terrifying …. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/jun/06/time-review-sean-bean-and-stephen-graham-astound-in-enraging-prison-drama