Picasso lives - in Hackney

The Bart Wells Institute is a great name for setting up expectations.

What you'll find, though, is an almost derelict house in Hackney, at the end of a block covered by a curtain of plastic and undergoing serious renovation work.

It's just as well, then, that they manage to put on some lively and idiosyncratic exhibitions. The premise for this one is simple: just imagine if Picasso hadn't died in 1973 and had continued to produce work influenced by artists working today. So what if he had fallen on hard times, slumming it in the Elephant And Castle and New Cross and teaching primary school kids in Lewisham?

Put together by off-beat curator Harry Pye, here we're offered the results of Picasso's flirtations with David Hockney, the Ska revival and BritArt. The latter is noted for a text-embroidered quilt ? la Tracey Emin (actually by Anna Sheppard and Janet Hamilton-Gill), and a painting of a Chris Ofili-type canvas (Francis Upritchard) that, instead of standing on Ofili's characteristic mounds of elephant dung, stands on two bread rolls, complete with small bread sticks arranged like the fat bread fingers in the famous photograph of the artist.

Featuring contributors such as former Stuckist Billy Childish (who's painted a cubist Kylie) and designers from the world of Web and set design, you may have already guessed this is not a serious counterfactual exercise, but rather a child's play-box of fun ideas. But what else could you expect when you are promised the Spice Girls posing as Les Demoiselles d'Avignon?

Viva Pablo
Until Sept 8, The Bart Wells Institute, 3 Silesia Buildings (off Mare Street) E8
Sat and Sun midday to 6pm, free.
Tel: 07762 363 601.
Tube: Bethnal Green.
Rail: Hackney Central