So, as I had told myself I would, on my last day in London, once the rest of the US gang had gone home, I went first thing with my friend Adam to get tickets to the slides at the Tate. The slides are the exhibit in the Turbine Hall of the museum, a huge empty hall designated for large works where they invite an artist to simply come in and do whatever they'd like with the space (essentially). So Carsten Holler built 4 giant slides, one off of each floor in the museum (I, of course, went for the one from the top floor-wheeeeeeee). It was super fun and after reading Holler's idealogy, I love these slides even more. I can't seem to work out links so I'm putting in some selections from the Tate
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