Area Daily: A Prayer for the Procrastinator at Cosa Gallery, London, UK

For an art fix, check out A Prayer for the Procrastinator at the Cosa Gallery in London (May 22 - June 10) where Laurence Owen and Henry Hudson follow the back roads and dirty alleyways into the dark recesses of the English psyche, toying with English national treasures in a most unsettling way.

What most esteem as artistic canon Owen merrily defaces, what most cherish as innocent and pure Hudson sullies with all the guilt and perversity of our adult desires. Their mischievous pride in their own ability gives these painters the audacity to mock what is universally accepted as ideal. They have the right to be proud and flippant, Richard Dorment described them as "astonishing young painters".

These artists may reference the renaissance but they use tradition to explore the issues and secrets of our modern nation, questioning what we treasure, what we cherish, and what we value in today's moral and cultural wilderness. What conceptual art for so long put off these new painters are taking head on: they are grappling again with the medium of the titans.