Royal Academy of Arts Myra Hindley, a convicted murderer. The painting was vandalised while on display. In 2004, the Academy attracted media attention for a series of financial scandals and reports of a feud between Rosenthal and other senior staff. These problems resulted in the cancellation of what were expected to have been profitable exhibitions. In 2006, it attracted the press by erroneously placing only the support for a sculpture on display, and then justifying it being kept on display. The Academy also hosts an annual Royal Academy summer exhibition of new art, which is a well-known event on the London social calendar. In
Alexander Talbot Rice of Edinburgh and Pope Benedict XVI. In 2007 he exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, USA. Talbot-Rice is currently painting a body of work from a studio at the Marrinsky Ballet in St Petersburg. Alexander Talbot Rice Alexander Thomas Talbot-Rice (born 4 August 1969 in London) is a British society portrait artist. Talbot-Rice is the son of David and Sylvia Talbot-Rice and was educated at Stowe School, Buckinghamshire which he entered on a fine art scholarship. After Durham University, he gained a scholarship to The Charles Cecil School (1995-1997) followed by The Florence Academy of Art (1997-2000) where