SAY SO

Tate Britain was crowded -- mainly for the Frida Kahlo show, which I didn't even try. In the 5th floor cafe space there was a large merchandising space -- a big trolley with over 3,000 Kahlo catalogues -- how long will they last? -- Kahlo jewellery hair grips butterfly brooches large and small necklaces & plenty of printed matter.

The c.70s show 'Open Systems: rethinking Art c.1970' was almost good value at £7 entrance [Donations requested: at the main door £3 and at the Cloakroom £2]. Nice 'cube' works and a whole room with Mel Bochner style measurements, Dan Graham spaces and photos, a Broodthaers museum piece, an anarchitecture room installation...& a good sit down with Robert Smithson's Hotel Palenque [1969] -- a slide lecture with a ghostly tape of the voice talking to an unseen audience -- low key anarthistory -- with photos that favoured stacking and seriality uncertainty and heaps, & ghostly slide-changes, none of which went wrong, a rarity.

Weather has turned to rubbish -- grey -- drippy showers -- & cold. Maybe it'll be ok for Bournemouth at the weekend. Weather didnt seriously impede my march up Charing X rd looking for books. Temptation on all sides, most, but not quite all, well resisted.