Autumn approaches, and with it the Institute's most ambitious programme to date: a programme so ambitious we have not yet decided what is in it.
The Confirmed Highlights
- A major retrospective of works we refused, hung facing the wall.
- An exhibition exploring beige, building upon the Great Beige Controversy without resolving it.
- At least one gala that no one will attend, which is how we prefer them.
The Unconfirmed Highlights
Everything else. We find that announcing a season before assembling it lends the whole enterprise a useful air of inevitability. By the time anyone checks, the velvet rope is up and the prices are higher.
On Tickets
There are no tickets. There is no door, in the conventional sense. There is only the studio, the squint, and the quiet certainty that your worst photograph belongs, somehow, in all of this.
Submit a specimen. Endure the interpretation. The season has, in every sense that matters, already begun.
Nigel Ponceby-Smythe, Director-General for Life