First Friday of the month the Tate Britain is open late and has live entertainment. Rather like the first Thursdays at The Walker Museum in Minneapolis.
Attracted a good-sized crowd even though it was raining pretty good. The Tate Britain contains art from the 1500's to present day Britain.
Just to be clear to those that have been here, the Tate Britain is the old museum. The Tate Modern is the new one which is a separate museum and has become the most visited site in London.
The portraiture paintings including some really beautiful Gainesboroughs and Van Dycks are my favourites. There were some clever everyday life paintings from the 1800's that I liked. There's an entire JMW Turner wing that I did care for. His paintings are very romantic with washed colours and imagery of myths.
Some of the entertainment was fun. There was this big black guy dressed in Victorian woman's attire singing old show tunes.
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