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Eva Jiricna replaces David Adjaye as Royal Academy curator

By 2020-09-11T06:00:00

Eva Jiricna

Source: Peter Cook

Covid disrupts Summer Exhibition for first time since it began in 1769

Eva Jiricna has stepped in to replace David Adjaye as curator of the architecture room at this year’s delayed Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

It is the first time in the show’s 252-year history that it has been disrupted, with not even two world wars achieving what the coronavirus pandemic has managed.

It means Adjaye is unable to complete his work as curator of gallery six – this year’s architecture room – because of diary clashes.

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