Rosetta Stone - British Museum. Saw the Grayson Perry exhibition there as well. His installation/curated exhibition was centralized around the British Museum and what it represents. I hope he has the opportunity to invest as much time and creativity into other nations & their respective national gallery, despite being English. I would love to see his take on the National Gallery in Washington D.C. - I could just see Alan Measles visiting Abe Lincoln, the National Monument and hanging out on the National Mall. Maybe a seaward sojourn across the Atlantic to add to the story as well.
Fourth Plinth @ Trafalgar Square. Artwork has been commissioned for this space and right now Yinka Shonibare has the plinth until later in 2012. The piece pays homage to the ships that battled the french during the Battle of Trafalgar.
ICA New Contemporaries 2011 featured 40 Fresh Outta Skool artists representing various methods of art-making including: film, printmaking, painting, installation, sculpture, but no New Media as far as I could tell. Some work seemed to be dense and others real high quality. Maybe I'm on a video kick but Hyun Woon Lee's "I Hate This Job" and Se-Jin Kim's "Night Worker" were the most attractive and appealing due to the simplicity of concept and cleanliness of production (especially the High Definition "Night Worker" film). However, other works such as Jessica Sarah Rinland's "Nulepsy" seemed to enter into the nostalgia for classic film niche that seems to be growing. The projector seemed more interesting than the film at times.
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