In the mid-nineties, Bag (an art-world darling best known for the chameleonlike range of personae that she adopts in bitingly satirical videos) and Beckwith (of the cult-favorite collaborative Art Club 2000) co-hosted a late-night public-access TV show.

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The noted caricaturists Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Pugin depicted both the art and the raucous crowd of viewers at a Royal Academy exhibition in their satirical work "The Exhibition Room at Somerset House" (1800).

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