So, having got drenched yesterday it seems somewhat pertinent to be blogging about an exhibition about rain which doesn’t get you wet. Yes, people, you read that right. A rain exhibition. You’d have thought that in this country the last thing we’d need is a room of rain. And even more amusingly, the day I went, I had to queue for almost an hour to get in. Laugh, you may, but the last laugh will be on you if you don’t go. Rain Room is the latest project and installation from those clever people over at Random International at the always and forever fabulous Barbican, London. It’s free to get in and on until March 2013. Make sure you get down there. This is art definitely worth getting wet for, or rather, not.
Random International: Rain Room
4 October 2012 – 3 March 2013
The Curve Gallery
Tickets: Admission Free
Times: View gallery opening hours
Open daily 11am – 8pm; Thu until 10pm,
Except Sat 13 Oct: 11am – 4pm (last admission into the queue 2pm)
Wed 31 Oct: 11am – 10pm
This looks fantastic. If only I lived in London…..
Ah, yes, rain! Here in the Pacific Northwest, it also began to rain yesterday, but check out my friend and colleague Elizabeth Patterson’s Rain Paintings in colored pencil at http://www.eapatterson.com/
She, (alas)?, lives in sunny SoCal, so has to go somewhere else, quite often, to find her subject!