Often enough in his career, Jasper Johns has issued statements that say in effect: ‘Who am I? The truth is that I don’t think I really know the answer myself.’ Does this retrospective at the R.A. answer the question? Maybe not quite.
22 September 2017
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
Marguerite Horner is a doer! She is one of the more active painters on the London art scene today.
30 April 2017
The British Museum was again the most popular visitor attraction in the UK in 2016 for the 10th year running.
27 March 2017
Exhibitions in major galleries are usually planned years ahead. So it is the Royal Academy’s good fortune that their two excellent shows Revolution: Russian Art 1917-32* and American After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s, should be so in tune with the current political zeitgeist.
26 February 2017
The R.A.’s new exhibition, hot on the heels of its magnificent Ab-Ex show, is entitled Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932. That is, it aims to cover what happened in Russian art during the first period of Soviet rule.
13 February 2017
To commemorate the centenary of the Russian Revolution, the Royal Academy of Arts is presenting a new exhibition titled Revolution: Russian Art 1917 – 1932.
3 January 2017
When I visited the Royal Academy’s in many ways excellent new show devoted to the Belgian Symbolist/Expressionist painter James Ensor, I… Read More
14 November 2016
The new Abstract Expressionism show that just opened in the main galleries of the Royal Academy at Burlington House, is an… Read More
22 September 2016
The Royal Academy has announced their 2017 exhibition programme, which explores some of the most momentous developments in 20th-century art. In… Read More
2 September 2016
David Hockney has, after a much reported domestic catastrophe in Bridlington – the untimely death of a young member of his… Read More
30 June 2016
This year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is the 248th edition and opens to the public next week on 13 June. One… Read More
8 June 2016
A major new large-scale public artwork by Yinka Shonibare MBE RA has been unveiled at the Royal Academy. It wraps… Read More
16 May 2016
The Royal Academy of Arts has elected Olafur Eliasson and Jenny Holzer as honorary RAs for 2016. The have also elected Sonia Boyce as… Read More
14 April 2016
The Clyfford Still Museum in Denver Colorado has agreed to loan the Royal Academy an unprecedented nine major paintings from the… Read More
13 April 2016
The first major exhibition of Abstract Expressionism to be held in the UK in almost six decades. With over 150… Read More
12 April 2016
My favourite exhibition of 2015 had to be the Richard Diebenkorn at the Royal Academy. His love of paint, brushstrokes,… Read More
30 December 2015
Eileen Cooper is the first female ever to hold the post of Keeper of the Royal Academy in its 247-year… Read More
31 July 2015
The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been granted a visa to travel to Germany. it is now expected that he… Read More
28 July 2015
The Royal Academy of Arts and Ai Weiwei have mounted a Kickstarter campaign to enable a huge, site-specific work in… Read More
16 July 2015
The Royal Academy of Arts has unveiled designs for a transformative redevelopment which will be completed in time for its 250th anniversary… Read More
11 May 2015
In September 2015, hot on the heels of Anselm Kiefer, David Hockney, and Anish Kapoor, the Royal Academy will present… Read More
4 January 2015
The Royal Academy of Arts is presenting the first survey of Richard Diebenkorn’s figurative and abstract works to a UK… Read More
18 December 2014
Welcome to the Establishment, Mr Jones, you may now safely wheel out your once risqué, now wince-inducing archaic women as furniture.
20 November 2014
The Margulies Collection in Miami has acquired ‘Die Erdzeitalter’ (Ages Of The World) (2014), the impressive installation that serves as… Read More
25 October 2014
The group exhibition Radical Geometry, from the Patricia de Cisneros Collection – at the Royal Academy of Arts, London –… Read More
12 July 2014
Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album is presented by the Royal Academy of Arts and were taken between 1961 and 1967… Read More
10 July 2014
The first major UK retrospective of the highly acclaimed German artist Anselm Kiefer’s is coming to the Royal Academy in… Read More
1 April 2014
The Royal Academy in London is mounting a major a retrospective exhibition of the artist Anselm Kiefer who has made… Read More
4 January 2014
The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace is holding a special exhibition of works titled Gifted: From the Royal Academy to The… Read More
2 November 2013
One of the most important Scottish contemporary artists of his generation, John Bellany has died age 71.
29 August 2013
A new exhibition at the Royal Academy exploring the intense thirty year period of artistic creativity that took place in… Read More
6 July 2013
