24 January 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
19 October 2022
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.
16 March 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 eggs. Fabergé in London: Romance to Revolution opened on the 20 November 2021 at the V&A London. It is set to run until 8 May; however, should we be selling tickets to a show that […]
20 January 2022
15 July 2020
25 January 2019
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
30 January 2018
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
10 October 2017
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.
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.
1 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.
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.
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).
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 twenty years. One of Belgium’s most prominent modernist artists, Ensor was widely considered to be an important precursor of Expressionism. Intrigue: James Ensor by Luc Tuymans will bring together some 70 paintings, drawings and prints by the artist, the […]
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 the Royal Academy for Summer 2016. The exhibition which will take place in The Sackler Wing will consist of recent portrait paintings, which will revisit the genre which has played such a major part across his long career. Vibrant, observant […]
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 exhibition will examine the role of gardens in the paintings of Claude Monet and his contemporaries. With Monet as the starting point, the exhibition will span the early 1860s to the 1920s, a period of tremendous social change […]
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
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 paintings that combine whimsical illustrative narrative with rich colour and texture. She was influenced by the French painters Matisse and Braque but possessed a truly English sensibility. For much of her career, her reputation was […]
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