Hi everyone, I hope you all had a pleasant Christmas. Hope to see you all next week. Been trying, but not hard enough, to write more, but spent too much time eating drinking and being merry instead. But why not, apparently the world will end in 2012, just to cheer you up. The ancient Mayan calendar started 5000 years ago but unlike ours counts downwards, and ends in 2012. Which is also when the Earth's magnetic field reverses. Apparently. Which is not much fun for all you orienteerers out there. Physicists say that this is nothing to worry about, but perhaps they are just being kind.





I went last weekend to the Lightbox in Woking, which is a new gallery and museum. It has caused a lot of controversy among the townsfolk, I have been told, many of whom believe that the money needed to build it could have been used more practically. The lighbox is decieving; the broadside, as one approaches, makes the building appear larger than it is. The entrance is gained from the left side which is quite narrow. So imagine a long thin rectangle of light. I went out of interest in "Drawn Blank" which is an exhibition of 60 paintings by Bob Dylan. What you actually find is a single room on the top floor which contains the works, which are drawings from the 80s and 90s that have been digitally enlarged and then painted by Bob. Some, it has to be said, are reminiscent of other artists, such as the 4 identical drawings in different colours that is very Warhol. Others remind you very much of Van Gogh, and I was hoping to see something more original. But he says that such similarities were not made intentionally. Most are views from rooms or portraits, and all share the same casual, colourful style. Incidentally, these works go for approx. "£4,000 unframed, £5,000 framed." A thousand? Your reviewer has quit his job and is going into the frame making business.