Limed for the Truth

Well, maybe . . .

A couple of months ago I spent a week and a half in the UK to visit my father. While I was there, I did most of the tourist stuff as well, revisiting some places from when I was last there in 2002, as well as checking out a few I had previously missed.

One of these was the Tate Modern, housed in that massive former power plant that sits on the Thames opposite St. Paul’s Cathedral. I spent a couple of hours wandering through, well, I’ll be frank; a whole lot of nonsense, though occasionally experiencing the frisson of seeing the works of Pablo Picasso . . . or the madness of Salvadore Dali, in person.

Then, upstairs, I came across one of the iconic works of modern pop-art: Roy Lichtenstein’s Whaam.

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