Exhibitions
Summer Exhibition 2008
9 Jun—17 Aug 2008
In the Main Galleries
Sponsored by Insight Investment.
The Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition is the largest open contemporary art exhibition in the world, drawing...
Vilhelm Hammershøi: The Poetry of Silence
28 Jun—7 Sep 2008
In the Sackler Wing of Galleries
Supported by Oak Foundation Denmark and Novo Nordisk
The Royal Academy of Arts is holding the first Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) retrospective...
From All Walks of Life
Genre paintings from the Royal Academy Collection
Until 07 Dec 2008
In the John Madejski Fine Rooms
FreeThis display explores the rich variety of genre paintings, or subjects of everyday life, from the Royal Academy's own collection.
Kengo Kuma: Nature and Architecture
Until 12 Aug 2008
In the Architecture Space
FreeKengo Kuma, the celebrated Japanese architect who is the Royal Academy’s Annual Architecture Lecturer for 2008, has selected seven buildings for his display ‘Nature and Architecture’.
The Young Lion: Early Drawings by John Frederick Lewis RA (1804 – 1876)
Until 26 Oct 2008
FreeSupported by The National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund.
John Frederick Lewis (1804 – 1876) is best known for his glittering scenes of oriental life inspired by a decade living in Cairo...
Read more about The Young Lion: Early Drawings by John Frederick Lewis RA (1804 – 1876)
A-Level Summer Exhibition Online 2008
Until 17 Aug 2008
This is the only online exhibition in the UK for secondary-school students at A level. It is live on this website until 17 August 2008, showing at the same time as the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition...
Miró, Calder, Giacometti, Braque
Aimé Maeght and his artists
4 Oct 2008—2 Jan 2009
In the Sackler Wing of Galleries
Sponsored by BNP Paribas
In Autumn 2008 the Royal Academy will present an exhibition demonstrating the achievement of the famous Galerie Maeght, which opened in Paris in 1945 and was to become one...
'A Secure Delight': Engravings of Landscape Gardens from Vitruvius Vitruvius Britannicus (1739)
Until 11 Jul 2008
In the Library Print Room
FreeThis series of illustrated garden plans by the Huguenot-born landscape surveyor John Rocque (c.1704-1762) is the most important surviving visual record we have of the great aristocratic gardens of early...
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Stephen Chambers RA, Multistack (detail). Oil on canvas, 190 × 249 cm. © the artist. Photo: John Bodkin, Dawkins Colour
View of the Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght. Joan Miró, 'Personnage', 1970. Takis, 'Signal Eolien (sphères)', 2005 / Collection Fondation Takis-KETE. Alexander Calder, 'Les renforts', 1963. Photo: Jean-Jacques L'Héritier. © Archives Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght, Saint-Paul (France)
Unknown artist, Mosaic icon of Saint Stephen (detail), c. 1108–1113. Tesserae on stucco, 218 x 118 x 7 cm. National Conservation Area St. Sophia of Kiev