The Buck Stopped Here: a bridge too far for Mayor Boris?

There was much merry badinage between London’s mayor Boris Johnson and the artist Grayson Perry at last night’s presentation of the Columbia Threadneedle figurative art prize (which went to 24-year-old Lewis Hazelwood-Horner for his epic canvas of craftsmen at work in James Smith & Sons, the historic bespoke umbrella emporium on London’s Oxford Street). In befrocked alter-ego mode, the artist mounted the podium to promote The Art Room—a charity supported by Columbia