IMPRESSIVE CROWDS BODE WELL FOR SAATCHI GALLERY

It was launched with more hype than the Titanic, but the new Saatchi Gallery is showing signs that it will stay afloat for a lot longer, Fiachra Gibbons writes in The Guardian. More than twenty-one thousand people dodged past Damien Hirst’s spotty Mini on the stairs of the County Hall museum in London during the bank-holiday weekend to take a closer look at Tracey Emin’s now notorious bed and ponder Sarah Lucas’s ribald arrangements of fruit and vegetables.