Exhibitionism @ The Saatchi Gallery, King's Road, London.

First rate exhibition of the Rolling Stones. So much to see and hear and with the mini mixing desks, so much to play with.
And to finish up with 3D glasses on, for a live video of them doing Satisfaction in Argentina, even better than seeing them live.
Enjoyed the display of various Keith Richard's guitars and the artwork and the costumes and the big stadium stage design and the Martin Scorsese interview and the.....
And what a location, close to where they all lived together in their very early years in Edith Grove, the reproduction that comes very early bringing smiles to everyone's faces.
I would say catch it if you can but it finishes in a weeks time.

Georgia O'Keeffe @ Tate Modern, London

A decent exhibition featuring some of, but not all, of her most well known works.Along with the stylised plants/sexual body parts the heavily abstracted works were great, but there was a lot of minor works that did not hold my attention at all.
What I did learn was she friends with my favourite photographer, Ansel Adams and a couple of his prints were on display. One of my favourites being Moonrise over Hernandez, New Mexico was on display, but this one took my eye, quite small no more than 100mm wide, it is of O'Keeffe and Orville Cox. Shot from low down, the definition of the clouds in the background and the creases in their faces are a highlight of the composition.
However an enlightening visit with the addition of visiting Herzog and Murren's extension which I nearly worked on but didnt.

Gesso in Jericho

Discovered a very small private gallery in Jericho, a small enclave just north of Oxford city's centre a couple of weeks ago and the highlight of their new exhibition is this work above by Oxfordshire artist Pamela Franklin. If I had the cash to spare I would have bought it, but what it did do was to fire up my rather asleep need to paint. Franklin's work is built up on worked layers of gesso (boiled rabbit skin and chalk in her case) with colour and in this case (middle bottom) silver leaf, worked into the surface. The surface is also etched revealing the white gesso below.
So now armed with a largish sheet of MDF and a tub of gesso, I have started my first painting in 40 years, the result, hopefully will be revealed here in the future!