New Contemporaries

Cornelia Baltes' Bird is unlikely to win a wildlife photo of the year award, but at least it's quietly elegant and well composed, which is more than can be said for most of the tripe in the Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2011 exhibition, which showcases work by recent art graduates and final-year undergraduates in the UK (title link). The show is currently at Sheffield, but turns up at the ICA in London from 25 November until 15 January 2012. It displays the "best" 40 of 1,400 entries. Groan!