I thought so too. I find her endless narcissism so boring. I wouldn't mind so much if she had some jaw dropping technical skills. I came out thinking her legacy will probably be reality tv stars will now start doing 'art' about themselves.
Rose Wylie - Sadly a walk through for me. There's not much there is there - A stick woman painting of Nicole Kidman on the red carpet. I did stop and talk to quite a few people (I'm chatty) including staff who kept pointing out that she's a woman and she's 93, as if these were by someone's Nan. They almost seemed to be embarrassed to discuss her paintings.
I'm all for curators showcasing women artists but can we have some with talent please.
Luckily the RA had Michaelina Wautier as a reminder that women can draw and paint as well (and in some cases better) than men.
The Lucian Freud Drawings at the NPG is spectacular. I think the NPG has recently had a good run of shows: Francis Bacon & Jenny Saville were standouts.
I am looking forward to Frida Kahlo & Vanessa Bell.
Interestingly, I was told that both the RA & the Tate Modern had lost a lot of money (millions) recently with shows that didn't perform well and I can totally see why.
The Renoir retrospective at the National Gallery is totally going to slay, like the Van Gogh show of the previous year.
Modern art programming and curation seems to have tediously fallen into this rotation of women artists / black artists / gay artists and not in a good way. Britain has never been great for the arts, they didn't exhibit Matisse & Picasso until 1946. You have to wonder why an institution like the RA didn't take the Rothko retrospective that was in Paris and now is in Florence?