Jeremy Deller: Joy in People; Elmgreen and Dragset: the Fourth Plinth – review

Hayward Gallery; Trafalgar Square, LondonYou enter through the teenage bedroom and are instantly back to the 1980s. Arthur Scargill pronounces from the posters, Lord Sutch is still alive and screaming, Jeffrey Archer is foolishly suing the Star. The life cycle of Keith Moon is lovingly recorded in black-and-white paintings, and above the Polaroids of party-goers, their faces faded to featureless moons, a parental voice recedes in trailing letters: "You Treat This Place Like a Hotel".It's persona...

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