Saucy McGill continues to amuse

That saucy old salt Donald McGill continues to cause a stir, nearly 50 years after his death. For the first time, the full collection of 21 postcards which were banned after an Obscene Publications Act witch-hunt in 1953, have gone on display. They can be seen in the perfectly appropriate seaside surroundings of the recently […]

Opinion: The Patron of the Arts

Bill Stott writes: Mr Charles Saatchi has given the Nation a large lump of his contemporary art collection, and a gallery to keep it in. Can’t say fairer than that. Sometimes, when we’re told that “the Nation” has stumped up daft money to keep Ravioli’s Temptation of St Botolph from disappearing into a foreign millionaire’s […]

BBC plays Rude Britannia

You can watch BBC Four’s take on the theme of Rude Britannia, which ties in with the exhibition of the same name at Tate Britain, just click the picture. The documentary is one hour long. Parts two and three can be seen tonight and tomorrow night on BBC Four or on the iPlayer.

Big summer for cartoon shows

“A stick of rock, cock?” – the classic saucy postcard by Donald McGill, from Tate Britain’s Rude Britannia exhibition June looks like being a great month for cartoon shows, with three new exhibitions opening in London. The big one is Rude Britannia which sees cartoons being let loose in a gallery for “proper art”, namely […]