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Well organised and sensitively hung, this year's Annual Exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy looks cool and coherent in spite of the huge number of works on display, writes Duncan Macmillan

By Duncan Macmillan

Published 12th May 2023, 16:08 BST

The 198th RSA Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh ****

Read the article on The Scotsman here.

RSA Annual Exhibition PIC: The Scotsman

This year's show is the 198th - the Academy's Bicentenary is approaching fast. As big as ever the show occupies the whole of the exhibition space on both floors of the building that bears the Academy's name. The works are in all possible media and are on the walls and the floor. The show also includes two galleries devoted to architecture. Remarkably, thanks to very thoughtful hanging, this mass of diverse words ranging in size from the enormous to the tiny looks cool and coherent....

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RSA Annual Exhibition until 11 June; Ian Westacott: Meetings with Trees until 27 May