Royal Academy show is delirious hodgepodgery

By and Ellis Woodman Ellis Woodman Ellis Woodman 2006-06-09T00:00:00

Centrepiece of the show is Ian Simpson’s 70 storey tower, Number One Blackfriars.

What virtues the Royal Academy summer show can claim have never included much in the way of a cohesion of vision. It is a ragbag and contentendly so. That said, year on year the rest of the exhibition is made to look positively monotonous by the delirious hodgepodgery of the ...

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