Art Award?

Personally I think I've seen better from elementary schools!A drawing which depicts Tony and Cherie Blair naked on the steps of 10 Downing Street is the centrepiece of the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition. Artist and sculptor Michael Sandle, 71, conceived the three-panel picture, Iraq Triptych, as a protest against the war.

"I suddenly felt overcome with anger at the way Blair has messed up," he told the Guardian newspaper.

The Summer Exhibition, now in its 239th year, is billed as the world's largest display of contemporary art.

Light is the overall theme of this year's exhibition, which opens to the public on 11 June. Sandle's Iraq Triptych will hang in Gallery V, and has been awarded the exhibition's Hugh Casson prize for drawing. The work, in charcoal and chalk, is based on medieval paintings of Adam and Eve being banished from the Garden of Eden. Side panels show Iraqi civilians being abused by British troops.