I don’t really know what will happen when you click on the
pictures I am pretty sure they will get bigger, this was the lazy man’s approach
is to put three postcards in the scanner at a time.
Ok I can see this is a bit mean on my readers as even
Blogger which I pretty good with image sizes will probably downsize these a
lot, so here is the link that you can download the size that came out of the
scanner from https://photos.app.goo.gl/TlxGH5Mn46n5ATlx2
So, Turner Contemporary and a question about Tracey Emin’s
bed Charles Saatchi paid for £150,000 this bed, “My Bed” and I wondered if any
readers though this was a bad move?
Anyway it seems that Turner Contemporary expansion could be
on the cards, see https://theisleofthanetnews.com/turner-contemporary-earmarked-for-6-million-expansion-project/
and do readers think that this would be £6m well spent?
I was in Margate on Saturday enjoying the new Exhibition and
sketching in the gallery café, listening to the background conversation about
My Bed, Jean Arp and JWM Turner.
I then went shopping in Margate where I know some of the
people who have shops there and so sop talk ensued, it’s inevitable among shop
workers like me.
For anyone who missed this I posted about it with links to
the photos I took of the exhibition, here is the link to that post http://thanetonline.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/photographs-of-tracey-emins-bed-and-arp.html
perhaps 100 photos I haven’t counted.
Back to Turner getting into bed with Emin later in the post.
An interesting bit of FOIing re Manston on What Do They
Know, here is the link https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/potential_cpo_partners#outgoing-672450
Manston keeps popping up on Facbook, but what does it all
mean? Is the answer, follow the money?
Oh yes Charles Saatchi and the £150,000, well he did sell it
at a profit for a little over £2.5m, so perhaps not a bad move.
The shop workers I spoke to are very pleased that the bed is
drawing the people to Margate and that the people are spending their money in
Margate.
As I expected the bookshop was busy today, I had to fill out
two online forms inbetween customers, some of whom were fairly short due to
half term.
Plenty of local history in the books that went out, here is
the link to the pictures of today’s books http://michaelsbookshop.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/sophies-world-in-bookshop.html
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