In a move as brazen as his art, Hirst invited the Tate director Nicholas Serota and brought Norman Rosenthal,
then exhibitions secretary at the Royal Academy of Arts, to the show in a taxi.
Visitors to this year's RA Summer
Exhibition will remember Bob and Roberta Smith RA's painting Letter to Michael Gove, which he created in 2011 as an impassioned response to the
then Education
Secretary's proposals for the British secondary school syllabus.