Cathy's Art Diary

Small pop-up exhibition at London Bridge station marking   National Album Day. Information boards highlight the influential, best-selling and iconic albums of Scotland, the North, the Midlands and London and the South. Each region shows the best sellers in that area then two guests from the music business suggesting the most influential and most iconic by artists from that area. Each featured album’s information includes artist, album title, date, a short write up and album cover. It was interesting to realise where artists come from plus to be reminded of old favourites. This was a nice diversion when travelling. Now closed.

Small display in the Icon Outlet Centre at the O2 to mark National Album Day. I must admit I saw this at the end of December and the day had been in October so I guess this was quite old! Even so it was an interesting display of iconic album covers over the last 70 years and looking at their history. It was nice that it began with a classical music album from 1949 and it would have been nice if had included a bit more from this genre. However it was great to see many records from my own collection including Rumours by Fleetwood Mac, of course, and Night Clubbing by Grace Jones but frightening to realise how few of the recent covers I recognised. A fun display to discover while shopping!