The commercial side of the art world quiets down in the summer, but as reliable as the comeback of frappuccino every summer,  you can count on at least one blockbuster show in a public gallery/museum. This year in London, we’ve got FIVE. The crown goes to ‘Popeye Series’ – Jeff Koons at Serpentine Gallery – if you go on the weekend like any other hard working members of the society, consider a line and a packed gallery part of the deal. ‘Walking in My Mind’ is another show that wins the heart of Londoners, featuring major installations from the very quirky Yayoi Kusama, the very popular Yoshitomo Nara, the very intelligent Thomas Hirschhorn, and my personal favourite, Mark Manders (and many more). Elizabeth Peyton, a name no one can escape this summer. She paved her way to a big solo in Whitechapel Gallery (coinciding the gallery’s reopening)  from an early summer show in Sadie Coles, countless articles in magazines, and a window residency in Banana Republic on Regent Street. The best publicity award has to go to her. Eva Rothschild‘s Duveen commission at Tate Britain receives mixed review but definitely generates talking point in the art scene. The last but never the least, east London’s permanent fixture, the adorable Gilbert and George, presented ‘Jack Shit’ in both of the White Cubes. They are back, this time bolder, glossier and DIGITAL!

images clockwise from the lobster: Jeff Koons, Eva Rothschild, Gilbert and George, Elizabeth Peyton, Mark Manders in ‘Walking in My Mind’