Christopher Le Brun Royal Academy President To Step Down
Christopher Le Brun will step down as President of the Royal Academy of Arts in December 2019 after serving for eight years.
26 September 2019
Christopher Le Brun will step down as President of the Royal Academy of Arts in December 2019 after serving for eight years.
26 September 2019
The Antony Gormley solo exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts opens on 21 September. It’s a solo show rather than a retrospective but covers work from the 1970s to the present day. The exhibition fills all thirteen rooms of the Royal Academy’s Main Galleries bringing together both existing and specially conceived new works.
19 September 2019
In a world-first, the Royal Academy unites Lucian Freud’s self-portraits in one extraordinary exhibition. See more than 50 paintings, prints and drawings in which this modern master of British art turns his unflinching eye firmly on himself.
Daily 10am – 6pm Friday 10am – 10pm
Is the Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946) the most fascinating artist the anglophone world has never heard of? The fashionable preoccupation with women artists of past and present is throwing up and out some real discoveries and rediscoveries.
25 July 2019
The exhibition will explore Gormley’s wide-ranging use of organic, industrial and elemental materials over the years,
Daily 10am – 6pm Friday 10am – 10pm
Discover the mesmerising paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck, one of Finland’s best kept secrets, in the UK’s first major exhibition of her work.
Daily 10am – 6pm Friday 10am – 10pm
This year the RA Summer Exhibition has returned to form with a talented lineup of artists chosen by an inexhaustible group of jurors. The 251st edition received over 16,000 entries. Around 1200 works, in a range of media, goes on display, next week. The majority of these artworks are offered for sale, allowing visitors to purchase original work by upcoming and established artists.
3 June 2019
The Summer Exhibition is the world’s largest open submission contemporary art show which has taken place every year without interruption since 1769.
10am – 6pm daily Fridays until 10pm
At the London Original Print Fair visitors have the unparalleled opportunity to buy original prints spanning five centuries, from top international dealers, galleries and studios
Thursday 25 April 10am – 9pm Friday 26 April 10am – 9pm Saturday 27 April 10am – 6pm Sunday 28 April 10am – 6pm
Premiums Interim Projects will provide an opportunity to see new work by 15 second-year students at the interim point of their postgraduate study at the Royal Academy Schools.
10am–6pm, Fridays until 10pm
Trace the development of the nude through some of the great masters of the Renaissance. Bringing together works by artists such as Titian, Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Dürer and Cranach, we shed light on a visual tradition at its most vital moment.
Daily 10am – 6pm Friday 10am – 10pm
Phyllida Barlow’s vibrant, large-scale installations transform the environments they inhabit.
Daily 10am – 6pm Friday 10am – 10pm
The Royal Academy brings together two artists Bill Viola and Michelangelo – born centuries apart – who explore the same universal themes with works of transcendent beauty and raw emotional power.
Daily 10am – 6pm Friday 10am – 10pm
Oceania, Royal Academy: To some extent, our ideas about what we call ‘primitive’ or ‘tribal’ art are still formed by… Read More
1 October 2018
Cornelia Parker RA brings her PsychoBarn installation to London and the Neoclassical surrounds of the Annenberg Courtyard at the Royal Academy of Arts.
Daily 10am – 6pm Friday 10am – 10pm
This special project by Bob and Roberta Smith RA explores the story of women artists and the Royal Academy – through the lens of his own family history.
Daily 10am – 6pm Friday 10am – 10pm
See rare and fragile drawings by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, offering intimate insights into their artistic relationship and differing creative processes.
Daily 10am–6pm Friday 10am–10pm
The Great Spectacle tells the story of 250 years of the Summer Exhibition, the world’s longest-running annual display of contemporary art.
Daily 10am – 6pm Fridays 10am – 10pm
This summer, Grayson Perry RA coordinates the biggest, brightest and most colourful Summer Exhibition yet, in the 250th annual celebration of “art made now”.
Daily 10am – 6pm Fridays 10am – 10pm
Premiums Interim Projects provides an opportunity to see new work by 14 second-year students at the interim point of their postgraduate study at the Royal Academy Schools, the UK’s longest established art school. This year, the exhibition will include a range of media including painting, print and audio-visual work, with a particular focus on the discipline of sculpture and an increased interest in materiality.
Daily 10am–6pm, Fridays until 10pm
In the Royal Academy’s newly opened Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries, the internationally renowned visual artist and Royal Academician will explore “landscape” in its broadest sense: intimate collections of natural found objects, a mountainous blackboard drawing and a series of cloudscapes in chalk.
Daily 10-6
Discover the legendary art collection of Charles I. For the first time since the 17th century, this landmark exhibition will bring together the astounding treasures that changed the taste of the nation.
Saturday – Thursday 10am – 6pm Friday 10am – 10pm
Drawing from casts and life models was long considered essential training for any aspiring artist, and was once a staple of the Royal Academy’s own art school. Now, on the cusp of the RA’s 250th anniversary, this special exhibition project takes an inquisitive look at the tradition and its ongoing relationship with artists today.
Saturday – Thursday 10am – 6pm Friday 10am – 10pm
The Royal Academy’s annual summer exhibition is now the largest open submission exhibition in the world hanging over 1,200 works by artists established and lesser-known in the space of just eight days.
Saturday – Thursday 10am – 6pm Friday 10am – 10pm
Held at the Royal Academy of Arts, the London Original Print Fair offers an opportunity to buy and view works from all periods of printmaking, from the earliest woodcuts of Dürer, to the latest editions by contemporary masters. The intimate, boutique Fair provides a friendly atmosphere for both budding collectors and seasoned print enthusiasts to engage with dealers and artists.
Thursday 4 May, 10am-9pm Friday 5 May, 10am-10pm Saturday 6 & Sunday 7 May, 10am-6pm
In case you missed the Royal Academy of Arts Autumn blockbuster exhibition Abstract Expressionism or you want to re-live it, here is a 360 degree tour of the show.
3 January 2017
Christopher Le Brun, painter and president of the Royal Academy (RA) is set to exhibit a two-part show of new work, in the US next year. Christopher Le Brun: Composer, will be mounted at the Albertz Benda gallery in New York (2 March-15 April 2017) and at the Gallery at Windsor in Vero Beach, Florida (25 February-27 April 2017).
14 December 2016
London’s Royal Academy (RA) has unveiled the first major exhibition of the Belgian painter James Ensor’s (1860-1949) work to be held in the UK in twenty years. The exhibition is curated by contemporary painter Luc Tuymans.
25 October 2016
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23 June 2016
The 248th Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London will open to the public, later on this week with its usual mix… Read More
6 June 2016
It has been a particularly busy year for the acclaimed dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. Artlyst even joined Ai and… Read More
24 December 2015
After Ai Weiwei, the Chinese dissident artist recently reported that the Danish toy manufacturer Lego had turned down a request… Read More
3 November 2015