“There is a separate entrance for those who are uncomfortable squeezing through the nude performers,” says BBC entertainment reporter Steven McIntosh about the Royal Academy exhibition of Serbian artist Marina Abramovic.
There can’t be too many people left who might feel uncomfortable squeezing themselves between a couple of naked people, and there will certainly be far fewer once the generation of kids who have sat through government-imposed graphic RSE programmes have come of age.
But the banality of her retrospective doesn’t stop there. Visitors to this exhibition, which runs until January 2024, will, for example, get to see Abramovic “knitting, smoking, holding a candle and walking with infinite slowness, carrying a bowl of milk”.
