RA Summer Exhibition Polite And Figurative – Sue Hubbard
For many, it’s as much a part of the summer to-do list as Glyndebourne or Wimbledon. The RA’s Summer Exhibition attracts big crowds.
6 June 2023
Royal Academy Of Arts
Summer Exhibition 2023
The world’s largest open submission exhibition is back, featuring work in every medium imaginable.
Tue-Sun 10am-6pm Friday 10am-9pm
Black Artists From The American South Royal Academy – Rev Jonathan Evens
The ethos of art, art by everyone for everyone with anything, is what drives black artists from the American South.
23 March 2023
Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers: Black Artists from the American South
Discover the Black artists from the Southeastern United States who created some of the most spectacular and ingenious works of the last century.
Tues–Sun: 10am–6pm Fri: 10am–9pm
Art In Spain And The Hispanic World A New RA Survey Exhibition – Lee Sharrock
Spain and the Hispanic World: Treasures from the Hispanic society museum & library is a major new survey exhibition featuring 150 works at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
26 January 2023
Spain and the Hispanic World: Treasures from the Hispanic Society Museum & Library
From masterpieces by Goya and Velázquez to dazzling objects from Latin America, explore the art and culture of the Hispanic world in this landmark exhibition.
Tues–Sun: 10am–6pm Fri: 10am–9pm
Women Making Modernism A Revisionist History – Royal Academy – Sue Hubbard
The title ‘Making Modernism’ implies that the artists included in this Royal Academy exhibition were at the forefront of the avant-garde. That they were an essential component in breaking the boundaries of 19th-century academic art for new freedoms. They would probably be very surprised to find themselves seen thus. It has taken more than a century for their importance to be re-evaluated and appreciated. Why? Because they were women.
16 November 2022
Ten London Art Exhibitions Autumn 2022
London comes into its own in Autumn with the opening of a whole array of exciting exhibitions, fairs and auctions. Artlyst has put together a list of ten art exhibitions presented in our world-class galleries and museums.
31 August 2022
William Kentridge
William Kentridge is known for his distinctive drawings, animated films, performances, and large-scale productions. This ambitious and immersive exhibition has been specifically curated for the Royal Academy and will encompass the broad repertoire of Kentridge’s forty-year career.
Tues–Sun: 10am–6pm
Milton Avery: American Colourist
Worshipped by Abstract Expressionists Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, Milton Avery expressed his vision of the world through harmonious colour and simplified forms. Now, for the first time, see the North American painter’s work this side of the Atlantic.
Tues–Sun: 10am–6pm
RA Summer Exhibition 2022
After two years in winter, the RA Summer Exhibition is back where it should be. The theme chosen by the exhibition’s coordinator, Alison Wilding RA, is ‘Climate’.
Tues–Sun: 10am–6pm
Kyōsai: The Israel Goldman Collection
Known for his independent spirit, Kawanabe Kyōsai (1831-1889) is among Japan’s most important master painters. Witty, energetic and imaginative, his art continues to influence numerous artistic styles today, from manga to tattoo art.
Tues–Sun: 10am–6pm
Whistler’s Symphony In White Royal Academy
Walking into Whistler’s Woman in White exhibition, one does not know quite what to expect. After all, it is a bold choice to construct an exhibition based solely around one painting.
26 February 2022
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
Late Constable
This exhibition – which spans from 1825 until the artist’s unexpected death in 1837 – explores Constable’s late style through his paintings and oil sketches as well as watercolours, drawings and prints.
Tues–Sun: 10am–6pm
Summer Exhibition 2021
The Summer Exhibition is the world’s largest open-submission art show. It brings together art in all mediums, from prints, paintings, film and photography to sculpture, architectural works and more by leading artists, Royal Academicians and household names as well as new and emerging talent.
Tues–Sun: 10am–6pm
David Hockney: Sequentially Spring Royal Academy – Marina Vaizey
David Hockney is, for a variety of reasons, a British National Treasure. Why? It is stunningly evident in the special exhibition of paintings done last year, which explores, sequentially, the arrival of spring unfurling over three months in his four-acre garden in rural France.
27 May 2021
David Hockney: The Arrival of Spring, Normandy, 2020
In the midst of a pandemic, David Hockney RA captured the unfolding of spring on his iPad, creating 116 new and optimistic works in praise of the natural world.
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Francis Bacon: Man and Beast
This powerful exhibition will focus on Francis Bacon’s unerring fascination with animals: how it both shaped his approach to the human body and distorted it; how, caught at the most extreme moments of existence, his figures are barely recognisable as either human or beast.
Tues–Sun: 10am–6pm
Tracey Emin / Edvard Munch: The Loneliness of the Soul
EXTENDED TO 1 AUGUST
Tracey Emin selects masterpieces by Edvard Munch to show alongside her most recent paintings
Mon–Sun: 10am–6pm advanced booking essential (Friends of the RA included)
Summer Exhibition 2020
For the first time in history, the Summer Exhibition will fall in winter.
to be announced
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
Léon Spilliaert
From his celebrated self-portraits to dreamlike scenes of the North Sea coast, this exhibition will introduce UK audiences to the visionary work of artist Léon Spilliaert.
Daily 10am – 6pm Friday 10am – 10pm
Picasso and Paper
Reopening
Picasso didn’t just draw on paper – he tore it, burnt it, and made it three-dimensional. From studies for ‘Guernica’ to a 4.8-metre-wide collage, this exhibition brings together more than 300 works on paper spanning the artist’s 80-year career.
Thursday to Sunday 11am-4pm
Eco-Visionaries
An exhibition examining humankind’s ecological impact on the planet.
10am–6pm, Fridays until 10pm
All Change: Tim Marlow Resigns As Royal Academy Art Director
Last week Christopher Le Brun announced he was stepping down as President of the Royal Academy and this week Tim Marlow the highly regarded Artistic Director of the Royal Academy of Arts has revealed he will also be leaving to become Chief Executive and Director of London’s Design Museum.
7 October 2019
Christopher Le Brun Royal Academy President To Step Down
Christopher Le Brun will step down as President of the Royal Academy of Arts in December 2019 after serving for eight years.
26 September 2019
Antony Gormley Plays With Our Perception of Space at RA
The Antony Gormley solo exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts opens on 21 September. It’s a solo show rather than a retrospective but covers work from the 1970s to the present day. The exhibition fills all thirteen rooms of the Royal Academy’s Main Galleries bringing together both existing and specially conceived new works.
19 September 2019
Lucian Freud: The Self-portraits
In a world-first, the Royal Academy unites Lucian Freud’s self-portraits in one extraordinary exhibition. See more than 50 paintings, prints and drawings in which this modern master of British art turns his unflinching eye firmly on himself.
Daily 10am – 6pm Friday 10am – 10pm
Helene Schjerfbeck Finland’s Best Kept Secret – Marina Vaizey
Is the Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946) the most fascinating artist the anglophone world has never heard of? The fashionable preoccupation with women artists of past and present is throwing up and out some real discoveries and rediscoveries.
25 July 2019
Antony Gormley
The exhibition will explore Gormley’s wide-ranging use of organic, industrial and elemental materials over the years,
Daily 10am – 6pm Friday 10am – 10pm
Helene Schjerfbeck
Discover the mesmerising paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck, one of Finland’s best kept secrets, in the UK’s first major exhibition of her work.
Daily 10am – 6pm Friday 10am – 10pm