Summer Exhibition review – a moronic monument to British mediocrity

Royal Academy, London
Obvious ideas get third-rate treatment as this life-draining spectacle showcases the artists of a nation adriftI wish I had a time machine so I could go back to the moment before I entered the Royal Academy’s 2019 Summer Exhibition, and then turn away. This is a memory I don’t need. Since seeing this sprawling dustbin of has-beens and never-will-be’s I have been weighed down by its depressing dullness. It was like being locked for days in a garden centre.L