Apr. 22nd, 2012

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On Easter Sunday I went for an eight mile walk through north London, largely on disused railway tracks, turned into the Parkland Walk - a thin strip of woodland weaving between suburban terraced houses.

Much of the time the path's railway ancestry isn't clear, aside from its double- or single-track width. There are no real indications on the north path, running from Alexandra Palace (if you know where to look) to Highgate Woods, aside from the industrial bridges. The south path, though, has double tunnels at its northern, Highgate, end, and two platforms halfway along its length - the remnants of a station at Crouch End.

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Just east of the former station are a series of brick arches, covered in some rather artistic and surprisingly attractive graffiti, like much of the brickwork and bridges along the walk. One of the arches houses a statue of Pan, hanging from the bricks: it is quite startling when you come across it unawares, a large figure emerging from the bricks.

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The walk was created along two branches of the Edgware, Highgate and London Railway, which was meant to form part of the Northern line in the 1930s but never got fully connected.
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Friday saw me at Tate Britain for "Picasso and Modern British Art". I loved this exhibition - spanning fifty years or so, it showed Picasso's influence on British art, and was full of some of Picasso's most famous pieces, as well as pictures by those he influenced.

The most powerful picture wasn't a painting at all: it was a half-scale photographic reproduction of Picasso's Guernica. Powerful, but not pretty. There were a couple of beautiful neoclassical portraits, including The Source - a clear influence on Henry Moore.

Outside of the Picasso exhibition, I was very taken with the staircase up to the main space: it has been decorated by David Tremlett, a work called "Drawing for Free Thinking". They now let you take pictures in the Tate...

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And I wandered around the other bits of the gallery, too.

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