Can the RA summer exhibition still be considered an open submission show?
… Painter Patrick Cullen supplies damning evidence that the answer is
… Painter Patrick Cullen supplies damning evidence that the answer is
the non-members’ work now represents only 29% of the total
Having already given evidence to the Culture Select Committee of
the House of Commons, the editor of The
Jackdaw was asked to justify some of his criticisms in writing. What follows is his further submission to the Committee… We were discussing, I recall, the Arts Council
The word
‘Disneyfication’ is usually pejorative, implying noise, trashinessInspired by landscape painter Patrick Cullen, The Jackdaw
Sept-Oct 2011 reprinted pieces about the Royal Academy that have appeared in The Jackdaw over the last eleven years. All deal withThe State should be more circumspect than to behave like
a private collector. Unfortunately, collecting and exhibiting in national collections according to narrow personal tastes and loyalties is established practice. Those employed
The Tate recently