Andrew Lambirth

Game for a laugh | 17 July 2010

Rude Britannia: British Comic Art<br /> Tate Britain, until 5 September

issue 17 July 2010

Rude Britannia: British Comic Art
Tate Britain, until 5 September

If each age gets the art it deserves, it might also be said that each age gets the exhibitions it deserves. The robust tradition of British Comic Art has never looked so unfunny and anaemic as it does in this current overworked examination at Tate Millbank.

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