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Thursday, August 29, 2013

'POP MODERN: The Portobello Urban Arts Festival Opening Night at the Louise Blouin Foundation, 28th August 2013

Thursday, August 29, 2013 - by londoncitynights · - 0 Comments


"Fuck the man!" was the yell reverberating around POP MODERN last night.  Much of this exhibition is devoted to sticking it to authority, to cocking a snook at the establishment and viciously sneer at the bastards with the gumption to tell us what to do.  POP MODERN, now in its 11th year, runs alongside the annual Portobello Film Festival.  These are new artists with fresh ideas, a common theme finding new ways to experience the world, to pump us up with antipolitik bravado, to get us in black balaclavas reclaiming the streets from the 'the man' that would seek to control us.  

Of course the anarchistic spirit was a bit dampened when 'the man' showed up to rescue us from a bin someone had set on fire.  But more on that later.

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