Also Martin Creed Curates was on too. This saw runners running every 30 seconds down the main hall in the Tate. Fun and weird. And a bit dangerous too with all those airy-fairy-arty types mooching around.
Anyway here's what the guide says from The Baby Names Tour. I'm not sure how inspiring it is...
You've examined the closing credits of your DVD collection, thumbed through countless baby names books and that precious little wide-eyed lump staring up at you is still without a name. Don't worry, your dilemma may be easily solved by following this collection.
Chances are you're overthinking it. keeping things simple is often the way to go. For instance, walk around our gallery and you'll come across 17 overachieving Johns, and some splendid Marys. Then again, you may prefer something more exotic. Consider the name of the artist who painted Covent Garden market, Balthazar Nebot.
Or perhaps Oriana, a young woman immortalised by Frederick Sandys.
If you're still a bit stuck, try making a choice based on matching your newborn's personality with that of a work of art. For instance, an attention seeking child could be named after Marcus Gheeraerts II's Thomas lee, the only portrait in the gallery without trousers.
Perhaps your child is the more thoughtful type. In which case think about naming it after the bookish Sir Brooke Boothby by Joseph Wright of Derby.
If strangers stop to admire your little one , you probably have a genuinely adorable baby. In which case you may like to choose a name of someone who was also adorable, like Dame Gabriel Rossetti's Proserpine or Thomas Gainsborough's Giovanna Baccelli.
Whatever you do, don't beat yourself up about it, we have 975 works that are still untitled so we've got much the same problem.
Oriana Giovanna or Balthazar Brooke Waller anyone?
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