A very late update

As many of you may already know, I spent a couple of months in London. I was really lucky to be able to visit a ton of museums with my son and a ton of galleries. Having lived there 18 years ago, it was really a wonderful experience to see it with new eyes. My previous experience of living London let avoid doing the things that first time visitors often feel the need to do. This let me really focus on seeing a lot of artwork and researching the things that I saw. I have written more articles for Painting Perceptions about artists that I saw there (Judith Green and there will be more to come) and about the history of painting in the UK post World War II Slade School of Art part 1 and Slade School of Art part 2).

My son the critic, didn't think much of the artwork at the Tate Modern - the best piece in the museum according to his taste was the barrier to a sculpture which I've forgotten about.

Despite my encouragement, he also didn't seem to think much Frank Auerbach's drawings at the National Gallery.

But he did seem to really enjoy the Constable room at the Tate Britain - or at least running around the room and being a boy he really loved the jet fighter by Fiona Banner as well.