Francesca Albini

It's the last few days of this year’s Summer Exhibition, and those of you who were going to see it, probably already have. So why am I writing about it? Because I was lucky enough to be taken on a private guided tour by one of the committee members, RA artist David Mach. David took our group around a wonderfully deserted exhibition, before opening times, and talked about the selection process, and the hard work entailed in putting this show together. This year’s exhibition

Royal Academy - 23 September — 10 December 2017 Jasper Johns has occupied a central position in American contemporary art since the 1950s, yet, at least in this country, we don’t get to see his work very often. The exhibition at the Royal Academy is the first comprehensive survey of the artist’s work to be held in the UK in 40 years: 150 works including paintings, collages, sculpture, drawings and prints, spanning six decades, from the 1950s up to the present time. Artworks