Climbing the stairs to the Royal Academy’s galleries to see the Summer Exhibition, I bumped into the academy’s president, Rebecca Salter. “It’s a classic,” she told me.
And she’s right. It’s everything that the Summer Exhibition should be: works by Royal Academicians, invited guests, and artists who’ve been selected through the open submission process, jammed tightly together on the walls, sometimes as many as 10 works deep. Artist David Remfry is this year’s coordinator, and he has indeed taken a classic approach.
