The London Traveler

You have a couple more days left to register your interest in RCA Secret 2008.
This intriguing art sale features postcards which have been painted or decorated by numerous artists, some well known (Grayson Perry, Tracy Emin,  Paula Rego and Anish Kapoor feature this year) and some less so. Musicians and fashion designers have also created some of the cards. There are 2,700 works available this year.Britart, photography, printing, there’s a huge selection of different styles and media.
You pay £40 and you take your choice. But you don’t actually know who painted which card, so it’s a bit of a lucky …read more

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The Momart fire was one of the great disasters of Britart. In a single warehouse fire, works by Tracy Emin, Damien Hirst,  Gavin Turk, and other artists were destroyed – and one of the works lost to the flames was Hell, by Jake and Dinos Chapman.
But now, the Chapman brothers have revived Hell – calling it F***ing Hell this time round – and even improved it, making it bigger.
It’s a really strange work, replaying atrocities and war crimes using little plastic soldiers. The sheer banality of evil is what strikes you – the idea that these little plastic toys with …read more

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