In 2006, I went to the Hayward Gallery in London to see Flavin's exhibition, 'A RETROSPECTIVE'. It truly was astonishing. As I have stressed in so many posts already, but the beauty of this work lies in the simplicity, yet the outcome is so strong. It was, and is probably the first exhibition I have ever been to when I could just sit in the middle of a room and look at the work over and over again, for hours.
In terms of the view from the museum and the decor of a museum, this is number 1 for me. When you get to the building, which involves either stairs or as you can see an outside escalator, there is the most beautiful view of the whole of Barcelona. The building as you can see is triumphant, and what I love most about it, is the fact that from the outside it is rather old fashioned and when entering, as you can see in the photos, it is very modern and new with small dashes of the old fashioned style being drafted in at points. 
This gallery is situated on 31 &34 Cork Street. It is a lovely small gallery that is just off Green Park. During holidays, one of my favorite past times is visiting galleries and museums. This area of London is wonderful for small, privately owned galleries, along Cork Street, Albemarle Street etc. The reason I have highlighted on the Alan Cristea Gallery, is that when I first visited this particular gallery, there was a wonderful show, exhibiting the artist, Julian Opie's work. It is a shame I am not able to show you quite how some of the images work, but it is very simple and clever, and uses the light. When you walk around the images they change, from where you are looking at them from. The first image is called, 'This is Shahnoza 1' (2006) 'His work involves the reduction of photographs, and short films into figurative reproductions' - (created using computer software) 
The way he projects his work is so cool, and I love the way he uses light to make his work powerful, strong and scary. I think the fact that the faces are all from the obituary paper is slightly messed up, and that maybe there are a couple of screws missing in his head, yet none the less it is probably the extremity of his work that makes it so powerful. His use of faces expresses what he is trying to note within the contrast between the light. Maybe he is shining light on dead people in a way to suggest that they still have light shining on them in some way.
I first came across the magazine 'Wonderland' in April 2007. It was clearly a fairly new and innovative magazine that represented the cool and arty trends and fashions. What I enjoyed is that it wasn't just photos on every page, like perhaps, 'POP' (that is also brilliant!!), yet also had explanations of the current style and more than just clothing line and fashion. 