{"id":2143,"date":"2009-10-19T16:43:44","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T16:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2009-10-19T19:28:48","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T19:28:48","slug":"five-days-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/10\/19\/five-days-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"FIVE DAYS TO GO!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My exhibition of <em>We English<\/em> prints at <a title=\"We English at Klompching Gallery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.klompching.com\/simonroberts\/weenglish\/thumbnails1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Klompching<\/a> gallery in New York closes on Saturday 24th October. If you&#8217;re in town, or passing through, I hope you get a chance to check it out.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2154\" title=\"Klompching 01\" src=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Klompching-01.jpeg\" alt=\"Klompching 01\" width=\"650\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Klompching-01.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Klompching-01-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The exhibition is reviewed by Vince Aletti in this week&#8217;s <em><a title=\"The New Yorker\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/arts\/events\/art\/2009\/10\/26\/091026goar_GOAT_art?currentPage=6\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a><\/em> &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We English,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the title of Roberts\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s engrossing exhibition of large-scale color photographs (and the related book) might lead you to expect gently satiric social studies in the style of Martin Parr. But the focus of the work is primarily landscape, and several of the images are broad, handsome vistas with only a few people scattered about the terrain. Even the photographs that include larger groups were taken from a distance\u00e2\u20ac\u201da perspective that echoes classical painting, although the subjects (golfers before a line of cooling towers, race contestants sloughing through the mud of a river at low tide) are decidedly contemporary.&#8221;<em> The New Yorker<\/em>, <em>19.10.09<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2156\" title=\"Klompching comp\" src=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Klompching-comp1-1024x770.jpg\" alt=\"Klompching comp\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Klompching-comp1-1024x770.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Klompching-comp1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Klompching-comp1.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My exhibition of We English prints at Klompching gallery in New York closes on Saturday 24th October. If you&#8217;re in town, or passing through, I hope you get a chance to check it out. The exhibition is reviewed by Vince Aletti in this week&#8217;s The New Yorker &#8211; \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We English,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the title of Roberts\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s engrossing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2146,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions\/2146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}