This year's Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy in London remains deliciously eclectic despite vague attempts to smarten it up, thinks BBC News Online's Kelly Shepherd.

"In spite of the diversity there is something faintly reassuring about the Summer Exhibition," she said.

"Like revisiting a holiday destination, going may not seem as exciting but when you get there you realise that it is still the same quaint place that you visited last year."

But what do you think? Is the show better than in previous years? Or is it a tired format that has had its day?

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