Postcard shopping
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I really wasn’t in the mood for a night in last night so did a quick scout about on messenger and dug up three parties. Two pretty much open to all, and one an invitation-only exhibition at the Royal College of Arts. I picked the latter, blagged myself an invite and buzzed down to South Kensington to meet Ross and Vinnie at the door.
I arrived to find a string of tents erected on the pavement with strange-looking people tightly bundled up in jumpers and sleeping bags sitting beside them. I assumed it was a protest of some kind, but it turns out they were actually waiting for the exhibition to open to the public tomorrow morning. Or, more accurately, they were waiting for the exhibition to go on sale the following morning.
It was a collection of 2,500 one-off postcard-sized pieces, some by famous artists and some by relative nobodies, each for sale at
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