Jonathan Jones gives the 2023 RA Summer Show: 3 out of 5
Read his review: HERE
Quote: "Why do they do it? Walking around the Royal Academy’s summer show – “the world’s largest open submission exhibition”, an immense gathering of good, bad and (mostly) mediocre art by amateurs and professionals, the famous and forgettable – you have to wonder, what is that urge to put pencil to paper?"
Jonathan Jones gives the 2022 RA Summer Show: 2 out of 5
Read his review: HERE
Quote: "Wilting flowers, soppy woodlands … this climate kitsch is about as concerned about the environment as Boris and Carrie Johnson."
Jonathan Jones gives the 2021 RA Summer Show: 5 out of 5
Read his review: HERE
Quote: "Yinka Shonibare has turned this annual event into a thrilling, thoughtful showcase boasting giant fruit and Colston in chains."
Jonathan Jones gives the 2020 RA Summer Show: 3 out of 5
Read his review: HERE
Quote: "Amid a sea of tasteful landscapes, only the BLM room and apocalyptic works by Tracey Emin and Anselm Kiefer are in tune with our troubled times."
Jonathan Jones gives the 2019 Summer Show: 1 out of 5
Quote: "I wish I had a time machine so I could go back to the moment before I entered the Royal Academy’s 2019 Summer Exhibition, and then turn away. This is a memory I don’t need. Since seeing this sprawling dustbin of has-beens and never-will-be’s I have been weighed down by its depressing dullness. It was like being locked for days in a garden centre."
Read his review: HERE
Jonathan Jones gives the 2018 Summer Show 5 out of 5
Read his review: HERE
Quote: "There’s an orgy going on at the Royal Academy. People are tumbling over each other, cavorting in ecstasy, revealing all. Who knew the summer show could be so subversive?"
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