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From: rocco Category: Art Date: 15 June 2008 Time: 06:37 PM Review: The makeover is working. Looking more and more like a contemporary art expo. Emin's done a rude one. I liked the tribute to Kitaj, I had written him off, but there are narratives and broken spaces, and witty painting, and he doesn't seem old fashioned now he's dead. Prize Winning Koon's egg is good, but he didn''t really need the prize money. Humphrey Ocean's room is quite nice. And all over you see stuff like Baselitz and Schnabel and there is only one ghetto room for horrible pictures. In the end perhaps they can get rid of all the junk, or perhaps it's quite a nice balance now, shows how good the chosen RAs are, compared to the mumpty general public/sunday painters.