Royal Academy

At a loose end today after a haircut and some shopping, so I thought I would make the annual pilgrimage to the Royal Academy summer exhibition. Always nice because everything is new, and its all so varied from abstracts to pretty realistic prints, big sculptures (like the pop art thing in the courtyard), to architectural models. And no shortage of visitors.

 I rather liked this dramatic abstract

And I have a particular fondness for the humour of Glen Baxter. Have a book of his cartoons, and liked this one very much. OK its not high art in the classical sense...

Of course the Royal Acdemy is a pretty attractive buiding in its own right, and I also took the opportunity to potter into the Sackler galleries to see an exhibition of Hungarian photography. Nowhere near as grim or pretentious as it sounds.

And it does have the only Michelangelo sculpyure in the country, albeit perhaps not the mot impressive of his works, this tondo

And nearby there are some very posh shopping arcades like Princes Arcade, as well as the famous statue of Eros, thronged with tourists