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< 2 years ago
Which artist are you?
A late night with the arty crowd or painting alone into the small hours – with four female pioneers of Modernism in our galleries, it’s time to find out which one you are…
Inside the Academy
2 years ago
Fanny Eaton at the Royal Academy
Get to know Fanny Eaton, a Jamaican woman who became a popular artist’s model in Victorian England and featured in many Pre-Raphaelite masterpieces.
RA Exhibitions
2 years ago
10 works to know by William Kentridge
With William Kentridge filling our Main Galleries with his immersive, spectacular work, here we take a closer look at 10 artworks by the visionary South African artist.
RA Exhibitions
2 years ago
Meet the artist: Marianne Werefkin
A dynamic influence in artistic circles, the Russian-born painter devised a haunting idiosyncratic style of her own
Inside the Academy
> 2 years ago
Fact-checking Bridgerton: The Royal Academy Schools and the Summer Exhibition
If you spotted the Royal Academy’s starring role in Netflix’s biggest series, you might be wondering what was fact and what was fiction. Thankfully, our Librarian Adam Waterton is here to debunk some myths and answer our Bridgerton questions.
RA Exhibitions
> 2 years ago
Wilkie Collins, Whistler and the Victorian craze for women in white
We’ve filled our galleries with Whistler, Klimt, and Rossetti’s paintings of women wearing white gowns, but what started this trend in the 1860s? Professor Lara Feigel explores the literary origins of this aesthetic moment.
RA Recommends
> 2 years ago
Doughnuts, art and sake: a London tour of Japanese delights
From a noh theatre festival to centuries-old arts and crafts, via the best of East Asia’s doughnuts, Rebecca Salter PRA’s route round the capital includes cultural and culinary treats.
RA Exhibitions
< 3 years ago
John Constable’s struggle to become a Royal Academician
If you have ever struggled for the acceptance and glory you obviously deserve, take heart from this story of John Constable RA’s decades-long struggle to become a member of the Royal Academy of Arts.
RA Exhibitions
< 3 years ago
Linton Kwesi Johnson on poetry as an act of resistance
Yinka Shonibare RA invited the renowned Brixton-based reggae poet Linton Kwesi Johnson to bring his powerful words to the Summer Exhibition. Caleb Azumah Nelson sits down with him to discuss the poetry of resistance.
RA Exhibitions
< 3 years ago
Five works to know in the 2021 Summer Exhibition
We enlisted art historian and founder of @ablackhistoryofart, Alayo Akinkugbe, to uncover five gems in this year’s show that capture Yinka Shonibare RA’s vision to ‘Reclaim Magic’.
RA Recommends
3 years ago
Laura Knight RA’s compelling Gypsy paintings
Poet Sasha Dugdale reflects on Laura Knight RA’s evocative Gypsy portraits ahead of a major retrospective of the artist’s work in Milton Keynes.
RA Recommends
> 3 years ago
8 places to see outdoor art this summer
From giant worms in Bexhill to Bronze-Age carvings in Yorkshire, there is so much art to see outside this summer.
Opinion
> 3 years ago
Covid and the comfort of nature
Psychiatrist Sue Stuart-Smith on how the seasons affect us all.
RA Exhibitions
> 3 years ago
Ali Smith on David Hockney and the poetry of spring
From Virgil’s ‘Georgics’ to T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’, novelist Ali Smith explores the spirit of spring in poetry