It’s the most hated exhibition in Britain – and the antidote to a self-obsessed art world
It’s time again for the Summer Exhibition, the perpetually unstable mix of works by professional artists (the Academy’s hundred or so academics) and hundreds of hopeful amateurs. Selected from open submissions and by a rotating committee, it results every year in more than 1,000 works hanging on every available wall: cat paintings, discarded abstractions that … Read more