{"id":268,"date":"2008-04-02T23:34:22","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T23:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=268"},"modified":"2008-04-02T23:34:22","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T23:34:22","slug":"art-the-tate-and-tigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"Art, the Tate and Tigger!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:627,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.tate.org.uk\\\/modern&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20120325202100\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.tate.org.uk:80\\\/modern\\\/?&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 20:28:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 20:28:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:628,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Bankside_Power_Station&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260401133755\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Bankside_Power_Station&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 20:29:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 20:29:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:629,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.tate.org.uk\\\/modern\\\/exhibitions\\\/dorissalcedo\\\/default.shtm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.tate.org.uk\\\/modern\\\/exhibitions\\\/dorissalcedo\\\/default.shtm&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">While in London on Sunday I went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/modern\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tate Modern<\/a>. This is an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bankside_Power_Station\" target=\"_blank\">old power station<\/a> converted into an art gallery. I like going there as it&#8217;s quite funny sometimes seeing what is classed as &#8216;art&#8217;! Some of the most funny is in the old turbine hall. This is a huge area where the turbines for generating electricity were once housed.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The current &#8216;installation&#8217; is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/modern\/exhibitions\/dorissalcedo\/default.shtm\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Shibboleth&#8217;<\/a>. This is basically a dirty great crack in the floor. It is supposed to represent the history of racism or something! Another barking mad artist who takes themselves far too seriously. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">So I decided to create my own temporary installation!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/100-2761.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"278\" alt=\"100_2761\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/100-2761-thumb.jpg\" width=\"209\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&#8216;Holiday Tigger sitting on a crack&#8217;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I&#8217;d bought Tigger for Carol as she&#8217;d stayed at home to look after her Dad who&#8217;s recently had a hip replacement. I couldn&#8217;t resist! <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Perhaps I should charge &#163;500 a print as it&#8217;s art. And it&#8217;s art &#8216;cos I say so!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While in London on Sunday I went to the Tate Modern. This is an old power station converted into an art gallery. I like going there as it&#8217;s quite funny sometimes seeing what is classed as &#8216;art&#8217;! Some of the most funny is in the old turbine hall. This is a huge area where the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=268\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Art, the Tate and Tigger!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paTxP-4k","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}