Millenium Bridge Work

Our first visit today was to the Tate Modern museum, making the inevitable march across the pedestrian Millenium Bridge. I asked the foreman (in yellow) what the workers were doing: they were simply painting the bridge. The dome of Saint Paul's Cathedral is in the background.

At the museum, we saw the  Alexander Calder: Performing Sculture exhibition. At the risk of emulating a broken record, I'll call it simply superb.  The website states, "This exhibition will reveal how motion, performance and theatricality underpinned [Calder's] practice; it did that, but beyond that it was wonderful to see his works brilliantly and spaciously displayed.  In that sense it echoed the Alberto Giacometti show we saw two days ago (interestingly their life spans paralled each other almost exactly).

In the afternoon we dropped in on the Natural History Museum's  Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition, to see its usual array of spectacular images of nature. We liked it better than last year, since it seemed to place less emphasis on highly technical modes of capturing the images.