I've not seen Emin's tent. Now I never will. A shame, but conceptual art's a funny thing. It's the concept which is important, not the execution, so I'm not sure how much it matters.
I suspect that it matters rather a lot to Saatchi's insurers, though. ;-)
This morning's Metro (spit) referred to it as "Tracey Emin's Sex Tent", totally missing the point. Phillistines.
Update: Shame it wasn't this lot which went up in smoke. (Via The Old New Thing.)
If you are in London and you've not been to the Lichtenstein exhibition, get your skates on - you've only got four days to go!
I was there yesterday, and I found it really interesting. Original paintings often look very different from the reproductions you usually get to see, but rarely is the impression you get so radically different as I found looking at Lichtenstein's work close up. Up close, big, the Benday dots have a strange effect on the eyes. It was interesting to see how some of these pictures were constructed, and I get the feeling that some of his work was as much a piece of experimentation with different techniques as it was an end result. Rouen Cathedral Set V springs to mind here - up close, each of the three appears to have been painted using a variant techniqe. I'd never have spotted that from a repro.
Also, while I was familiar with Lichtenstein's work from the 60's and 70's, I's not seen his more recent work. His Chinese-influenced Tall Mountains from 1996 (which I can't find on the 'net) was particularly impressive.
I'm off to see transit station this evening. Might be interesting.