The US specialist travel agent offers a package including travel, London accommodation and seats for Centre/No 1 & 2 Courts.
Dress: Centre Court visitors are likely to be expensively dressed in smart casual summer wear.
The Arts in June
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
Date: 2 June - 10 August, 2003.
Venue: Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington
House, Piccadilly, London W1V ODS.
What it is: The two-centuries-old Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is now the world's largest open contemporary
art exhibition and an important showcase for British artists
to sell their work. Past Royal Academicians include William Blake and JMW Turner, and more recently David Hockney and Peter Blake (who has hung two shows). Most works are for sale, some at very reasonable prices. This year the RA have
invited students from leading London art colleges to exhibit. An additional show of work by RA Schools final year students is open 4 - 18 June; an admirable opportunity to buy into budding talent before it is snapped up by the galleries. The RA was founded in 1768 under the patronage of George III and is housed in
Burlington House, Piccadilly, the superb Palladian
edifice named after its original owner and architectural
visionary, Lord Burlington. The exhibition is very much a
part of London's social scene, (The Queen attended last year's Preview), and tickets to the opening private view, when you can meet
some of the artists, are normally obtainable from the Special Events Manager. Other interesting exhibitions at the RA during this month
include 50 masterpieces from Italian Renaissance paintings to Mantegna and Titian, works by Dürer, Van Dyck, Velázquez, Poussin, Watteau and
Canaletto; all on loan from Dresden.
Website: www.royalacademy.org.uk
Further Information: Contact Miss Katharine Jones, Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1V
ODS; tel: 020 7300 8000; fax 020 7300 5614.
Getting there: Situated in London's West End on Piccadilly between Old Bond Street and Sackville Street. Nearest
Underground: Green Park (Piccadilly line).
Tickets: You do not need to be an Academician to attend. Contact the RA at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1V ODS; tel: 020 7300 5959; email: boxoffice@royalacademy.org.uk. Pay on entry during the exhibition.
Dress: No dress code except at private views.
Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts
Date: Second week to the end of the third week
