Tate Modern Art Museum
Thankfully we didn't visit this wacko museum this trip. Last year Gail HAD to see the Frieda Kahlo exhibit in the Tate while I killed time wandering through the other rooms of junk this place puts on display. A million TV sitcoms have joked about the ridiculousness of some modern art but the Tate actually takes this stuff seriously. My favorites were the huge black canvas with nothing on it and the old cupboard filled with garbage fished out of the Thames. Brilliant really.
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