Bauhaus at Barbican

Today the Barbican Art Gallery opened Bauhaus: Art as Life, which limps along until 12 August. It's billed as "the biggest Bauhaus exhibition in the UK in over 40 years" and it doesn't take long to see why! This show is for punters hooked on tubular and/or stackable furniture. The Bauhaus design school was way ahead of the pack where furniture was concerned, but as an art movement it fell flat on its face. Look at Kurt Schmidt's hideous Little Hunchback Puppet (1923) and despair. £10 for this? Gimme a break, Barbican. I wouldn't visit this show if it were free (CLICK).