Exhibitions in the Ulster Museum at the moment

One of Rembrandt's self - portraits is on show - painted the year he died!! I also saw a self portrait in the art museum in New York which has an absolutely fantastic selection of paintings donated by rich benefactors and some day I am going to go back there when I can linger. There are some other Dutch masters on show in the Ulster Museum also. I couldn't spend much time close to the Rembrandt as someone wanted to give a talk on it to a party of schoolchildren and I was in the way.

Yesterday I spent about an hour in the museum cafe - they do have free wifi but I was taking no chances and I had brought along a little gadget from 3 the mobile phone company that creates my own wifi zone (there are places that nominally have free wifi but you can't access facebook or check your email). So I sorted through the photos I had just taken in Botanic Gardens and sent one to the weather forecast.

There is a photographic exhibition by Paul Seawright entitled 'things left unsaid' - images of newsrooms in America where news of the Iraq war had just been broadcast from - very few people in these pictures and a lot of empty newsdesks like the emptiness the sad news of the war creates inside.

Another great show is the best of last years GCSE and A level artwork - I go to it every year and it is always brilliant!!