13 November 2019
7 October 2019
All Change: Tim Marlow Resigns As Royal Academy Art Director
Last week Christopher Le Brun announced he was stepping down as President of the Royal Academy and this week Tim Marlow the highly regarded Artistic Director of the Royal Academy of Arts has revealed he will also be leaving to become Chief Executive and Director of London’s Design Museum.
26 September 2019
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.
19 September 2019
Antony Gormley Plays With Our Perception of Space at RA
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.
30 August 2019
25 July 2019
Helene Schjerfbeck Finland’s Best Kept Secret – Marina Vaizey
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
9 July 2019
3 June 2019
RA Summer Exhibition Returns To Form Under Jock McFadyen
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 May 2019
2 April 2019
7 February 2019
10 December 2018
10 December 2018
1 October 2018
Oceania Royal Academy A Lasting Air Of Strangeness – Edward Lucie-Smith
Oceania, Royal Academy: To some extent, our ideas about what we call ‘primitive’ or ‘tribal’ art are still formed by what we have learned, during the last century or so, about the art of tribal Africa. African art had a major impact on the attitudes of the Cubists, and later on those of the Surrealists, […]
23 September 2018
29 August 2018
19 March 2018
2 January 2018
29 November 2017
29 November 2017
3 January 2017
360 Degree Tour of the Abstract Expressionism at Royal Academy
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.
Christopher Le Brun RA To Mount Two US Exhibitions In 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).
James Ensor Exhibition Curated By Luc Tuymans Unveiled At The Royal Academy
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.
2 September 2016
Matisse in the Studio
Step into the studio of Henri Matisse, brimming with the artist’s treasured objects. Focusing exclusively on their important role in his work for the first time, the RA will reveal how this eclectic collection took on new life in his transcendent art. Matisse drew his collection from the far corners of the world: Buddhist statuary […]
2 September 2016
Revolution: Russian Art 1917–1932
One hundred years on from the Russian Revolution, this powerful exhibition explores one of the most momentous periods in modern world history through the lens of its groundbreaking art. Renowned artists including Kandinsky, Malevich, Chagall and Rodchenko were among those to live through the fateful events of 1917, which ended centuries of Tsarist rule and […]