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
Portrait of a Murderer Portrait of a Murderer Portrait of a Murderer is an episode of the TV show "Playhouse 90". It was about killer Donald Bashor. Leslie Stevens wrote the script with the assistance of a former cell mate of Bashor's. He also wrote while listening to interviews with Bashor. The "Los Angeles Times" thought it was "extremely interesting TV." The "AV Club" says the director Arthur Penn "makes extensive use of Bashor’s actual statements and a first-person camera to create a faux-documentary style that was decades ahead of its time. Penn marveled at the improvisatory aspect of Tab Hunter’s performance as Bashor,