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Have you tried queuing early for tickets on the door for Leonardo?

Last time I paid to see an exhibition at the Royal academy was the Light Fantastic laser show in 1977. That was also a very popular exhibition with queues outside.

Was the contorted mill town this one? http://markmeynell.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/david-hockney-saltaire1.jpg

It's Saltaire, a place I'd love to see you visit and write about.

To add to the comments for corrections, Woldgate is to the West, not East of Bridlington.

Ah, yes - east of Bridlington is Flamborough Head and then mostly the North Sea.

We went, book well ahead and for the evening slots and you'll get in.

It's well worth it.

Rob

I still can't decide whether I loved it or not but I certainly know my ten year old self would have adored it.

The Lucian Freud exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery is worth a visit as is the Picasso exhibition at Tate Britain but both very busy on the day I went. The baby boomers are now OAPs.

It is a very good exhibition. Unfortunately ´the Royal Academy doesn't have the lobby space of the National Gallery / British Museum which benefited from lottery money at the time of the millenium and so the entrance area is very busy during peak hours. With all the money from the exhibition, the Academy could at least have put up a a marquee in the grounds as a combined queuing area and gift shop. On the other hand in these days of marketing obsession, it is rather quaint to have an institution that is rather amateur at selling souvenirs.

they do often have a smallish gift shop outside during warmer weather, and permanent improvements are planned inside on the eastern side of the building











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