Here’s a quick list of good stuff I’ve come across lately but for whatever reason didn’t make it to a post here, my tikichris-to-go Tumblr blog or one of my client blogs but are well worth me mentioning and you checking out!
Death: A Self Portrait: So glad I got to check out this Wellcome Collection exhibition before it closed.
Showcasing some 300 works from a unique collection devoted to the iconography of death and our complex and contradictory attitudes towards it, the show featured “rare prints by Rembrandt, Dürer and Goya displayed alongside anatomical drawings, war art and antique metamorphic postcards; human remains juxtaposed with Renaissance vanitas paintings and twentieth century installations celebrating Mexico’s Day of the Dead … ancient Incan skulls … a chandelier made of 3000 plaster-cast bones by British artist Jodie Carey” … and so much more.
Respect to collector Richard Harris for sharing his passion with the world and to the Wellcome Collection for presenting such a remarkable exhibition for free.
Human Centipede: First Sequence: Have you seen this preposterously horrendous horror film about a couple of ditsy American girls on a European road trip and a hapless Japanese tourist falling into the hands of a demented German surgeon bent on creating the world’s first “Siamese triplet” by connecting his victims’ gastric systems together? This movie is so bad it’s brilliant.
Orange Buffalo: I can’t believe I haven’t actually written a review of this place yet. I’ve been a few times to this “New York style” wings vendor located in a trailer at Ely’s Yard behind the Old Truman Brewery. Quality grub! And sitting here writing about them now, I’m craving more heat from OB’s awesome sauces.
Morad Winery: I had a fun time at Kedem’s recent Kosher Food & Wine Experience 2013 at the lovely Park Lane Hotel Ballroom. To be sure I sampled a good number of great wines. But, for me, the one stand out from the event was Morad Winery’s Danue Pomegranate Wine. Sweet and sour and kinda smoky – I wish I’d try to blag a bottle.
