Bill Viola: Distraction By Life, Death And Rebirth – Zoltan Alexander
“Such a preachy, pompous show.” – Telegraph. “Viola’s art is dated, dead in the water.“ Guardian.
6 February 2019
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Bill Viola And The Art Of Contemplation – Revd Jonathan Evens
In welcoming Bill Viola’s installations at St Paul’s Cathedral, Mark Oakley noted that: ‘Viola’s art slows down our perceptions in order to deepen them.’
13 January 2019
John Ruskin: 200th Anniversary Celebrated With Year-Long Programme
To mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of the influential writer, thinker, artist and social reformer John Ruskin (1819 -1900)
6 January 2019
Klimt And Schiele: Naked Social Disruption – Royal Academy – Edward Lucie-Smith
The R.A.’s show of drawings by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, almost all of them loaned by the Albertina Museum in Vienna, arrives at a crucial moment in the long history of visual art.
31 October 2018
Gormley – Barlow And Viola To Spearhead Royal Academy’s 2019 Exhibition Programme
The Royal Academy has announced their exhibition programme for 2019 and it’s a force to be reckoned with.
3 September 2018
Grayson Perry RA Appointed Coordinator Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2018
Grayson Perry RA will be the co-ordinator of the Royal Academy annual Summer Exhibition in June 2018.
24 January 2018
Jasper Johns: Who Am I? A Retrospective By Edward Lucie-Smith
Often enough in his career, Jasper Johns has issued statements that say in effect: ‘Who am I? The truth is that I don’t think I really know the answer myself.’ Does this retrospective at the R.A. answer the question? Maybe not quite.
22 September 2017
Matisse Cultural Appropriation And His Studio RA Review By Sue Hubbard
The artist’s studio is both a practical workshop and the workshop of the mind, a place of reflection and play, of doubt and hard work. At first a modest collector of modest means, Matisse filled his studio with objects collected on his travels to create a stage-set of languid sensuality, returning to the same paintings, prints, sculptures and textiles for inspiration over and over again like old friends, each time finding new points of stimulation.
1 August 2017
Marguerite Horner Explores Humanity When People Are Faced With Trauma
Marguerite Horner is a doer! She is one of the more active painters on the London art scene today.
30 April 2017
Tate Modern And Royal Academy Visitors Rise By Over A Million
The British Museum was again the most popular visitor attraction in the UK in 2016 for the 10th year running.
27 March 2017
Crash Goes The American Dream c1930 RA Unveil Timely Painting Exhibition
Exhibitions in major galleries are usually planned years ahead. So it is the Royal Academy’s good fortune that their two excellent shows Revolution: Russian Art 1917-32* and American After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s, should be so in tune with the current political zeitgeist.
26 February 2017
Restless Revolutionaries: A Timely Look At Russian Art By Edward Lucie-Smith
The R.A.’s new exhibition, hot on the heels of its magnificent Ab-Ex show, is entitled Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932. That is, it aims to cover what happened in Russian art during the first period of Soviet rule.
13 February 2017
Centenary of the Russian Revolution Marked In New Royal Academy Exhibition
To commemorate the centenary of the Russian Revolution, the Royal Academy of Arts is presenting a new exhibition titled Revolution: Russian Art 1917 – 1932.
3 January 2017
Radical Ensor At The RA – Review By Edward Lucie-Smith
When I visited the Royal Academy’s in many ways excellent new show devoted to the Belgian Symbolist/Expressionist painter James Ensor, I… Read More
14 November 2016
Abstract Expressionism The Dark Triumph Of American Art By Edward Lucie Smith
The new Abstract Expressionism show that just opened in the main galleries of the Royal Academy at Burlington House, is an… Read More
22 September 2016
Royal Academy Announces Exceptional 2017 Exhibition Programme
The Royal Academy has announced their 2017 exhibition programme, which explores some of the most momentous developments in 20th-century art. In… Read More
2 September 2016
David Hockney Portraits: A Panoramic Glimpse Into The Life Of A National Treasure
David Hockney has, after a much reported domestic catastrophe in Bridlington – the untimely death of a young member of his… Read More
30 June 2016
Richard Wilson’s Duo Vision Helps Evolve Royal Academy Summer Show 2016
This year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is the 248th edition and opens to the public next week on 13 June. One… Read More
8 June 2016
Yinka Shonibare Unveils New Large-Scale Work At The Royal Academy
A major new large-scale public artwork by Yinka Shonibare MBE RA has been unveiled at the Royal Academy. It wraps… Read More
16 May 2016
Royal Academy Elects Olafur Eliasson And Jenny Holzer As Honorary RAs
The Royal Academy of Arts has elected Olafur Eliasson and Jenny Holzer as honorary RAs for 2016. The have also elected Sonia Boyce as… Read More
14 April 2016
Clyfford Still Museum Agrees To Loan Royal Academy Nine Iconic Paintings
The Clyfford Still Museum in Denver Colorado has agreed to loan the Royal Academy an unprecedented nine major paintings from the… Read More
13 April 2016
Royal Academy Announces First Major UK Abstract Expressionism Exhibition For Sixty Years
The first major exhibition of Abstract Expressionism to be held in the UK in almost six decades. With over 150… Read More
12 April 2016
Top UK Art Exhibitions of 2015 By Sara Faith
My favourite exhibition of 2015 had to be the Richard Diebenkorn at the Royal Academy. His love of paint, brushstrokes,… Read More
30 December 2015
Eileen Cooper : Love, Sex, Motherhood And Family New RA Drawings Exhibition
Eileen Cooper is the first female ever to hold the post of Keeper of the Royal Academy in its 247-year… Read More
31 July 2015
Ai Weiwei Expected To Attend Royal Academy Exhibition In London
The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been granted a visa to travel to Germany. it is now expected that he… Read More
28 July 2015
Ai Weiwei And The Royal Academy Mount Major Crowdfunding Initiative
The Royal Academy of Arts and Ai Weiwei have mounted a Kickstarter campaign to enable a huge, site-specific work in… Read More
16 July 2015
Royal Academy Unveils David Chipperfield Redevelopment Design
The Royal Academy of Arts has unveiled designs for a transformative redevelopment which will be completed in time for its 250th anniversary… Read More
11 May 2015
Ai Weiwei: First Major Institutional Survey For Royal Academy 2015
In September 2015, hot on the heels of Anselm Kiefer, David Hockney, and Anish Kapoor, the Royal Academy will present… Read More
4 January 2015
Major Richard Diebenkorn Exhibition Announced For Royal Academy In March
The Royal Academy of Arts is presenting the first survey of Richard Diebenkorn’s figurative and abstract works to a UK… Read More
18 December 2014
Allen Jones: Wince-inducing Furniture Women Just The Tip Of The Iceberg
Welcome to the Establishment, Mr Jones, you may now safely wheel out your once risqué, now wince-inducing archaic women as furniture.
20 November 2014
Margulies Collection Acquires Anselm Kiefer’s Centrepiece From Royal Academy Show
The Margulies Collection in Miami has acquired ‘Die Erdzeitalter’ (Ages Of The World) (2014), the impressive installation that serves as… Read More
25 October 2014
Radical Geometry: Latin American Passion Equals An Historical Epiphany
The group exhibition Radical Geometry, from the Patricia de Cisneros Collection – at the Royal Academy of Arts, London –… Read More
12 July 2014