Artists Battle Amid Red Riot at Royal Academy Exhibit

Red is always the most important color in the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition in London.

That’s the hue of the spots that traditionally indicate sales, which run riot this year for example around a framed print by Tracey Emin, “Small and Beautiful,” so sweetly affordable at 275 pounds ($427), in an edition of 300, that the dots almost upstage the actual image of a little bird. Red is also the color of conflict, and that’s at the heart of the Summer Exhibition.