At nearly every corner there's a gallery in London. Today I went to see to two of them. First was Getty Images. The stock photo agency has its own gallery close to Oxford Circus. Right now there are photos of stars on display. The exhibition is titled Love from London: A City of Stars. As I'm not very much into celebreties I wasn't much impressed but I did like the mock-up of Alfred Hitchcock floating in the Thames and Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy fooling around in a shop.
Just opposite of Oxford Street is The Photographers' Gallery. The exhibition of Sally Mann's photos The family and the land is amazing. Especially the pictures of her (naked) children are beautiful. Rather strange are her pictures of dead bodies used by scientists in a forensic study. However, she's a great photographer.
In the evening I went to The Old Vic, a theatre close to Waterloo Station with a grand history. Design for Living by Noel Coward has been banned from UK's stages in the 1930s. Today, the story of Leo, Otto and Gilda who love each other obviously isn't provocative anymore but great fun.
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