Contemporary art in London is full of childish glee these days. If Carsten Höller’s slides (at the Tate Modern until April 15) sound too scary, how about a game of “Squeak Piggie Squeak” with the kids at Tino Sehgal’s latest interactive performance work, down at the ICA?

I finally got my camera out to snap the original plaque on which Peter Saville based the sticker in the current issue of Creative Review (see previous post).

The new issue of Creative Review contains a sticker specially designed for us by Peter Saville. The theme of the issue, guest edited by Mother, is selling out: part of that is a discussion of the degree to which those working in visual communications “prostitute” themselves.

Photographer Steve Harries new book, Reading Lines, is launching with an exhibition in Carhartt’s London flagship store on Earlham Street from 1st February. The book showcases images of London skateboarders and the public spaces they explore, exploit and ultimately interact with…

“Mother are guest editing the February issue of Creative Review and are offering one page for anyone to ‘express themselves’. Highest bidder wins a page of this creative magazine to express their creativity in any way they want. You give us some of your cash, we’ll give you one of our pages. Your page will be seen by 100,000 people. Please submit your artwork by Thursday 21 December 2006. No company logos, no adverts, no Danish cartoons.”

This was the copy that went up on eBay on 7 December 2006. This is what happened next.

The return of Life on Mars, the BBC1 series in which a detective wakes up to find himself back in the 70s, is being trailed with a nice campaign from Red Bee Media.