Norman Ackroyd RA Master Printmaker Has Died Aged 86
Norman Ackroyd, RA, one of Britain’s leading landscape artists and master printmakers, died on 16 September, 2024, at the age… Read More
18 September 2024
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Rebecca Horn Inventive Installation and Performance Artist Dies Aged 80
Rebecca Horn RA, a pioneering German installation artist and filmmaker, has died (September 6th, 2024), aged 80.
8 September 2024
Ann Christopher RA To Lead Royal Academy Lineup for 256th Summer Exhibition
The Royal Academy of Arts has revealed the committee for the upcoming 256th Summer Exhibition, which is set to be coordinated by the renowned British artist and Royal Academician Ann Christopher.
5 December 2023
John Akomfrah RA To Represent GB At 60th Venice Biennale
The artist and filmmaker Sir John Akomfrah RA will is to represent Great Britain at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2024
24 January 2023
Making Modernism: Women Artists In Early 20th Century Germany RA
Making Modernism is the first major UK exhibition devoted to women artists working in Germany in the early 20th century.
19 October 2022
Should The V&A Close Their Fabergé Egg Exhibition – Tate And RA Sever Relations With Russian Billionaires – Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Bonhams Cancel Russian Art Sales
Whenever you hear the name Fabergé, you think of opulent, lavish, jewelled, decorated, and, let’s face it, kitsch, Russian Imperial… Read More
16 March 2022
Jock McFadyen RA: Tourist without a Guidebook
Bringing together 20 works spanning almost 30 years, this free display in the Weston Rooms explores Jock McFadyen’s fascination with London’s changing urban landscapes.
Mon: closed Tues–Sun: 10am–6pm
Whistler’s Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan
Joanna Hiffernan’s relationship with Whistler ran deeper than artist and muse. In this rich exhibition the RA explores her life and role as a friend, model, lover and collaborator.
Tues–Sun: 10am–6pm
Gauguin and the Impressionists
Denmark’s Ordrupgaard Collection is a treasure trove of important Impressionist works. The RA will showcase 60 of its works by painters such as Manet, Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Morisot, Degas and Gauguin
to be announced
Lubaina Himid CBE Elected Royal Academician
It’s been a fantastic run of accolades for the Turner Prize-winning artist Lubaina Himid CBE who has been elected as a Royal Academician in the category of Painting
25 January 2019
Charles I Commemoration Of A Doomed King – Royal Academy – Edward Lucie-Smith
The R.A.’s new exhibition, devoted to the role of Charles I, the most unfortunate of the Stuart monarchs, as collector of art
30 January 2018
Duchamp And Dali Two Iconic 20th-Century Artists – Edward Lucie-Smith
Duchamp And Dali – Royal Academy: This provocative little show at the R.A., done in parallel with the same institutions big retrospective for Jaspers Johns, asks a number of questions about both the past history of the visual arts avant-garde, and about its current travails.
10 October 2017
Matisse vs The Multi-Cultural Multi-Ethnic 21st Century Art World – Edward Lucie-Smith
I went to see the R.A.’s new Matisse show, but not at the press view, as I was abroad. I did go very shortly after it opened. Not unexpectedly, it was jammed with visitors, and I mean jammed. You had to dodge round backs to get a proper view of some of the smaller items, notably the drawings.
11 August 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
Christopher Le Brun PRA Touch And Improvisation The Artlyst Interview
Christopher Le Brun, PRA, painter, and president of the Royal Academy is a very busy man. With two shows currently on in the United States, Christopher Le Brun: Composer, at the Albertz Benda gallery in New York (2 March-15 April 2017) and in Vero Beach, Florida (25 February-27 April 2017) at the Gallery at Windsor, he continues to expand his international reach as a force to be reckoned with.
3 March 2017
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).
14 December 2016
Luc Tuymans To Curate Major James Ensor Exhibition At The RA
London’s RA has announced the first major exhibition of James Ensor’s (1860-1949) work to be held in the UK in… Read More
27 July 2016
New David Hockney Portrait Exhibition Announced For RA In 2016
A new exhibition of the work of David Hockney RA titled ’77 Portraits, 2 Still Lifes’ has been announced by… Read More
30 September 2015
Unearthed: New Details Of Claude Monet’s Planning Struggle In Creating Giverny
The Royal Academy of Arts will be presenting a new exhibition exploring ‘Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse’, this major… Read More
7 July 2015
Some Curators Think They Are More Important Than The Art Itself
Why put on an exhibition? What’s the point? The term curator comes from the Latin ‘curare’, “to look after”, simply meaning to care
5 February 2015
Mary Fedden Highly Regarded English Still Life Painter Dies
The highly regarded artist Mary Fedden, who created colourful still-life paintings has died aged 96. Feddon was renowned for her… Read More
23 June 2012
Christopher Le Brun Elected Royal Academy President
Christopher Le Brun has been selected as the new president of the Royal Academy of Arts. He is the 26th president
11 December 2011