In Brief: not even Kate Moss can help shift Banksy artworks
Is it all over for Banksy? Yesterday six silkscreen prints of the supermodel Kate Moss (pictured) by the grafitti artist were put up for sale by the auction house Bonhams - price tag: a modest £150,000 - but failed to sell. In normal times, the iconic works, which were produced in a limited run of 20 sets, would have been snapped up, but the downturn in demand for contemporary art has hit Banksy's prices harder than anyone else, says a First Post art world source. "Six months ago these would have gone for up to quarter of a million. A lot of people who bought into him now have works that, even if they could find a buyer, would sell for a fraction of what they paid for them."............Stephen Fry, Jack Dee and Rob Brydon are to share hosting duties for a new series of BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, replacing Humphrey Lyttelton, who died last year.......... Jeremy Paxman once asked Tony Blair if he and George W Bush ever prayed together. He said no, but according to the London Evening Standard he did just that with President Barack Obama two weeks ago when the pair met at the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, where the former Prime Minister was the principal speaker. The paper claims that Blair, who beat Gordon Brown to being the first UK politician to meet Obama at the White House, actually "insisted" that the President should kneel and pray with him before they talked............Danny Boyle has promised to buy homes for the child actors who appeared in the eight-times Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire. They and their families will be moved to apartments in Mumbai worth £20,000 each in the coming months............Sir Terry Wogan is considering quitting BBC Radio 2 after more than 15 years, according to reports............ ·















