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Watch out! Contemporary artists take on the Beano – in pictures

“It’s strange,” says Andy Holden, curator of new Somerset House exhibition, Beano: The Art of Breaking the Rules, “that a formula from 1938 still resonates today. That it survived the birth of children’s TV, computer games and a changing world.” The comic home of Dennis the Menace and Minnie the Minx has done more than survive, it’s flourished, becoming a formative influence on the generations that grew up reading it. To illustrate this, the show includes artworks by 50 contemporary art rebels alongside cells and comic strips from the Beano’s own archive.

Beano: The Art of Breaking the Rules is at Somerset House, London WC2, from 21 October to 6 March 2022

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[The Guardian] Watch out! Contemporary artists take on the Beano – in pictures

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