London art roundup: Turner Prize winner and a museum with everything

This week saw artist Richard Wright win the Turner Prize for his giant gold leaf frescos. Wright was an unusually conservative choice for Britain’s most controversial art prize, his work is intricate and delicate, doesn’t pander to outraged tabloid journalists and at 49, he is only months below the Turner’s maximum age limit.

If you’re in London between now and January you can see all the nominated pieces at Tate Britain. I definitely recommend a visit to see if this is truly ‘the future of Brit art’ or, as Minister of Culture Kim Howells so charmingly called it: ‘a load of conceptual bulls**t’. Due to this year’s unusual absence of sex dolls, condom strewn beds and ‘Arsewoman in Wonderland’, you can even take your little darlings along with you.

Not that I am a massive fan of little darlings in galleries. I visited The Museum of Everything on Saturday and the place was overrun by noisy mini people. Nevertheless, I still recommend a visit to this fascinating gallery of outsider art. Miniature fairgrounds, bonkers religious paintings, twenty foot biro sketches and creepy dolls (to name but a few gems) all housed in the most fantastic secret labyrinth of a gallery in Primrose Hill. Oh, and they have a great little café with home made cakes and proper tealady in a tabard to serve you too!

- Anya Driscoll, contributing editor

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