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We're choosing venues in turn and Caroline has picked The Drawing Room in Laburnum Street, Bethnal Green.

It's a good first stop - the gallery is auctioning drawings by artists such as Cornelia Parker and (of course) the Chapmans, with bids starting at £150.

But it turns out to be further away than we'd thought and Caroline is wearing the sort of shoes you wear when there's a chance you'll bump into Jake or Dinos.

Also, Laburnum Street isn't as leafy as it sounds, being what my grandmother would have called " rough".

Still, the work on the Drawing Room's walls is good.

My choice next, and it's off to Hotel on Old Bethnal Green Road.

East End spaces often have cheeky names - one is called f-art - and the work they show is commensurately playful.

Until 9 May, Hotel is host to Torsten Slama, an Austrian whose visions of a post-industrial apocalypse seem oddly suited to the area: The Secret Missile Silo could be one of the slab blocks just visible through Hotel's windows.

Caroline is now regretting her Manolos on various counts, pain and muggability being but two.

Also, it's three hours since we left the Whitechapel and we haven't seen so much as the Chapmans' dog.

So we head south east, to the cluster of galleries off Cambridge Heath Road - specifically, to Herald Street, home to a space of the same name of which we have heard good things.

I do not at first register the subject of Cary Kwok's work.

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