This annual tradition at the Royal Academy gives a great overview of what’s going on in contemporary art. This year Grayson Perry RA and his committee of fellow artists handpicked over 1,300 artworks in an array of mediums.
The Summer Exhibition includes a monumental sculpture by Anish Kapoor in the RA courtyard, while vast new works by David Hockney and Joana Vasconcelos appear in the galleries. Artists Mona Hatoum and Tal R show alongside Royal Academicians including Wolfgang Tillmans, Mike Nelson, Tracey Emin and Rose Wylie, and Honorary Academicians Bruce Nauman and Ed Ruscha.
The exhibition extends across the newly-expanded cultural campus, with prints on display in The Sackler Wing of Galleries and a “room of humour” in the new Ronald and Rita McAulay Gallery featuring David Shrigley and Martin Parr.
As always, most of the art is for sale and purchases to help the Royal Academy raise money for the Academy’s non-profit-making activities, including educating the next generation of artists in the Royal Academy Schools.
RA Summer Exhibition, 12 June - 19 August, Royal Academy of Arts.
