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Tuesday, December 30, 1997 Published at 08:31 GMT

Entertainment

Sensational hit for Royal Academy

"Sensation", the Royal Academy's autumn exhibition focusing on the achievements of a generation of young British artists, is being hailed as a giant success.

The exhibition, which closed on Sunday, featured a blood-filled head, gory images of dismembered limbs, explicit pornography and a portrait of Moors murderer Myra Hindley made out of children's handprints.

[ image: Marcus Harvey's portrait 'Myra']
Marcus Harvey's portrait 'Myra'
Despite triggering widespread condemnation - the Hindley portrait was vandalised and some academy members resigned - the exhibition of 110 works by young British artists, loaned by collector and advertising chief Charles Saatchi, proved a big crowd-puller.