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Medals of Dishonour

25 Jun-27 Sep 2009

The British Museum
London WC1B 3DG

Overview

Satirical and political medals from the 16th to the 20th centuries including two of US sculptor David Smith's influential Medals for Dishonor of the 1930s (from which the exhibition borrows its title) and a little-known medal by Marcel Duchamp. Also medals recently commissioned from leading contemporary artists Jake and Dinos Chapman, William Kentridge, Grayson Perry, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Richard Hamilton, Mona Hatoum, Ellen Gallagher, Langlands and Bell, Cornelia Parker, Michael Landy, Yun-Fei Ji, Steve Bell and Felicity Powell.