Art World Tale

It seems that Vivian Choi, manager of the Artspace Gallery in London, is so fearful of offending Charles Saatchi that she banned Paul Harvey's tongue-in-cheek portrait of Saatchi from being shown in the gallery's window display. She claimed it was "too controversial for the area" (Mayfair). Saatchi too controversial for Mayfair? Maybe it was the halo from a Dairylea cheese wrapper around Saatchi's head that worried Choi. You wouldn't want to offend your snobby clients with that sort of thing. Dairylea cheese spread is for working-class mums; squash a triangle of the stuff between two slices of bread and there's your kid's lunch. Following an exchange of heated emails over Choi's decision, she decided to close the exhibition Stuckist Clowns Doing Their Dirty Work a week early. So, if you want to see the exhibition, you'd better nip along to Artspace by Saturday 28 August. To read the full saga of the Mayfair controversy, visit Stuckism International (title link).