Hotting up at Australia in London

Clumsy, parochial, amateur, inadequate, tokenistic... see it all at the Royal Academy in London under the banner of 'Australia'.

• Helen Davidson summarises the reviews here
• Martin Gayford, Bloomberg Ned Kelly joins Aborigines, Beach Art at Royal Academy
  
   'While there are beautiful and interesting things on display, there’s far too much nondescript and mediocre stuff in between.'
• Peter Farquhar Business Insider repeated in Auckland Now "Brit critic calls Aussie art 'cascade of diarrhoea'"
• Zach Schonfeld in The Atlantic Wire:  The Brits Really Hate the New Exhibition of Australian Art '... the reviews are so bad, they're almost good. Almost.'
• Waldemar Januszczak The Sunday Times Culture 22.09.2013 'A desert of new ideas: The Royal Academy's beaut idea to explore Australia is let down by lots of art, which is weedy, provincial and all too European. But there are some might sights on the ride.' ( pay wall on this article)