Since Richard Prince’s VERY successful collaboration with Louis Vuitton for their S/S 2008 collection, it only makes sense that his art works are exhibited not only in the Vuitton boutique windows but also in great art galleries like The Serpentine one in London.
Good Work is a collection of paintings by students who studied under professor of painting Clyde Hopkins, at University of the Arts London. We see all the local London heros of the contemporary painting, like Peter Doig, Chris Ofili. As well as some stunning works by recent graduates and masters teacher assitants. Chantel Joffe’s tiny paintings, her use of think palet knife strokes and somber colours conveys a solmness of the lone seated girl. Martin Westwood pen an ink graphic portrait. Nicky Hoberman inks a chilling face in his portrait of a sweet yet menacing little girl. Zoe Mendelson’s mixed media pencil on photo piece.
In a recent visit to the Tate Modern, there are almost interesting nouveaute!!
I really liked Dieter Roth’s 6 Piccadillies (yes, I liked these 4 of the 6 the best). An interogation of different ways of representing and painting the same scene. 
Steve McQueen’s Drum Roll. McQueen won the Turner Prize in 1999. This inovative video he put 3 video cameras in a steel barrel and rolled it through the streets of New York City. Negotiating our way through a fractured and chaotic urban space. 
I saw Cheri Samba’s works for the first time at the Venice Biennale. Using acrylic paint, in a response to billboards, signs and comic strips, Samba tackles serious socio-political issues in Africa with his artworks. A humoristic yet conflictual discussion of politics and evolution in African art and society.
There are always interesting things happening in Tate Modern Turbine Hall.
LIVE : LIVING CURRENCY, a two-day exhibition of performance art in contemporary dance. X-Event 2 autonomous units imposing the limitations of the individual in awareness of a place. The dancers move slowly and thoughtfully around and towards each other. Subtly touching, holding, posing, spitting, creating the distance and the interconnections between the whole and the individual.
Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth, a crack that starts at the entrance of the Turbine Hall, which deepens into a crack, and then a branches down into a deep massive fissure in the floor. The title means, a test for detecting people from another country by their pronouncation of a word. It is a word a power which seperates those foriegn and those who have the power to judge.
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