Newspeak

I must admit I find Charles Saatchi's attempts to find and define "emerging" British artists as both pretentious and tedious. Take Maurizio Anzeri's Giovanni (2009) an old photographic print tarted up with pointless abstract embroidery. Is this really the new face of UK art? I hope not. For a start he's Italian! (He works in London.) See for yourself at Newspeak: British Art Now Part II, the Saatchi Gallery's second installment of its museum-scale survey of emergent British contemporary art. It opened in London yesterday and limps along until 16 January 2011 (title link). Yawn.