Geoff Dyer on Dennis Hopper show at London RA

[OldRoy]

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jul/12/dennis-hopper-inside-man-photography

An interesting article. Whilst some of his earlier stuff is a bit "gap year", Geoff Dyer's an entertaining critic. For those not familiar with it here's a link to a review of his "The Ongoing Moment".
http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2005/oct/16/art

I'd attend this show but as a Londoner who got an early release from the place (for moderately good behaviour) after a 30 year stretch, I hate London more every time I set foot back there. A summer exhibition at the R.A.... As Ernest Thesiger remarked when asked what the war (ie WW1) was like in France, "Oh, my dear, the noise! and the people!"

[Pete_G]

What's wrong with London? It's a nice quiet little place with a few good restaurants and pubs. The people who live there seem very respectable, most of them work in banks, it seems, and are quite well paid.