Lady Da Da goes La-De-Da.: Braved the barrage of Bruges' tourists and drizzle for art.

The day turned out OK.

Managed to find the Groeningmuseum to see the small collection there. While getting my tickets, my heart sank when I saw a guy with three kids lining up. "Great!" I thought, "bring them in here to be noisy and bored".

But just look at them!

Not one of them spoke louder than a whisper and they were really into reading their information sheets and spotting all the features of the paintings. I didn't manage to capture them in the act of pointing, but they did it a lot. They couldn't be more than about 8 or 9 years old. Well done, Sir! Well done!!!

Here is a photo of some European intellectuals looking at an Hieronymus Bosch painting.

My mood lifted further when I finally found where I could get tickets to see the museum inside the Church of Our Lady.

The white figure that is out of focus in the centre is Michelangelo's Madonna and Child.

What is with people digging up crypts...

And the confessionals start with a plain design for, I suppose your basic sins, and get more elaborate as the sins are ,,,, more ....profound... presumably.

I was so impressed by the lovely church I almost forgot I had another ticket to a contemporary art exhibition across the street... and I could not believe my eyes!

I fell in love with William Kentridge back in the 1990s when I saw his charcoal drawn animations on a documentary. This was back when the ABC played arts programs on Sundays, ahhh... memories. Remember when Australia wasn't frightened of the left agenda?

Well, there was a phenomenal exhibition of Kentridge's which completely absorbed the rest of my afternoon.

He created allegorical animations about South African issues by creating images with charcoal and chalk and erasing and re-drawing the images. The documentary showed long gorgeous sequences of his work.

Well, since then he has integrated shadow puppetry.

So beautiful.

Then upstairs was this incredibly beautiful video installation. Drawing animation, layered with live action players holding shadow puppets and painted sections. Just magnificent.