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From: art repeats Category: Art Date: 08 June 2008 Time: 04:47 PM Review: Better the second time. Most shows improve with looking, like most art. The old bores of drabness which is what british art always was is a very clever idea for an oldYba to make a show of, reminds you how we needed dame and trace. Also if you're gonna choose from the arts council collection it will be full of this stuff so why not make it the point, then cannot be criticised for being musty. Ruskin Spear has done a great little painting of dirty london, lowry was always a fave, and the muddiness and small ambition is breath of sour air which has its virtues in our brassy times. Some of them painted (more photographed) how UK actually looks, not their minds just appearances which may have made them small minded. SEE materialism (marxist).