The Work Art Balance

ST LUKE'S: It's been something of an artistic weekend this week. Well in between working both days. Actually I'm at the end of a 55-60 hour week (or actually at the beginning of another one, the delirium makes it difficult to tell) so work has been the main theme but yesterday I visited Hyde Park with a side tour to the Serpentine Gallery which is currently showing works from Damian Hirst's personal collection. Highlights included a photo of a man in a gorilla suit fulfilling Mary's role in <Pieta, an Andy Warhol car crash and some other giant sculpture that involved a BMW with a door ripped off and the arm of a manequin making wanking gestures.

Then after a stroll down Piccadilly stopping in at the bookstores it was time to see the Velazquez show at the National Gallery. Incorporating many of the highlights of the Spanish masters career the show was completely and utterly transcendent. Lacking the fine brush of an art critic I couldn't do the show justice if I elaborated so let me leave it at, transcendent.