I went to the opening of the Dead Bird Show at the Whitechapel Project Space last night (20 Fordham Street, E1 1HS if you're interested, tel: 020 7377 6289). The theme of the show is the fact that architects have been building buildings which don't allow animals to live in, on or near them (the gherkin being an obvious example, with no nest-building possibilities. A number of artists contributed work, including Sarah Lucas, paul Hamlyn, Peter Doig, Abigail Lane, Chris Ofili and David Harrison who's also the curator. The brief seemed to have been taken fairly literally, especially by Patricia Jordan's contribution 'Dead Bird' (can you guess what it was?) It was a really good, lively show. I felt a bit guilty arriving an hour early and persuading the curator to open the door to me. Within 5 minutes, there were about a dozen people inside which I guess means it all began an hour before he was ready.

Meanwhile, in another part of London city, the plight of birds in an urban habitat was also a theme at the Trafalgar Square plinth event

B-)