The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2025 will be dedicated to art’s capacity to forge dialogues and to afford us sensitivity towards societal concerns, such as ecology, survival and living together.

Feb 6, 2010 · The Royal Academy of Arts, located in the heart of London, is a place where art is made, exhibited and debated.

Dec 18, 2024 · The great art quiz of 2024. Published on 18 December 2024. From bananas to Banksy, Taylor Swift to the Turner Prize, it's time for our annual art quiz of the year!

Nov 9, 2024 · At the turn of the 16th century, three titans of the Italian Renaissance – Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael – briefly crossed paths, competing for the attention of the most powerful patrons in Republican Florence.

Aug 24, 2023 · Abramović’s practice commits to taking up space, to placing her body in galleries and rooms and eschewing privacy and comfort: in the raised rooms of The House With The Ocean View (2002) – which will be reperformed in the RA exhibition – where she lived for 12 days and the ladders offering escape had knives for steps; in the airless heat of a Venetian basement scrubbing animal bones and ...

Feb 14, 2022 · 2. He revelled in chaos . Bacon’s Reece Mews studio (since relocated to Dublin) is the manifestation of chaos. By the time he died, his studio floor was feet-deep in thousands of photographs and magazines – a mix of high and low cultural images, historic paintings, scientific drawings and photographs as well as reproductions of …

Nov 20, 2020 · How to revisit a work. Emin created I am The Last of my Kind in 2019 whilst preparing for the RA exhibition The Loneliness of the Soul.Built up in pale pink and bluish hues, this almost sketch-like painting portrays a naked female figure – arms hanging limply and head looking downwards, avoiding the gaze of the viewer.

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Aug 8, 2024 · Finding objects. After the minimalism of An Oak Tree Craig-Martin began looking for new directions to take his work. He continued to experiment with readymade objects, producing a series of works made using closed Venetian blinds and he made simplified drawings of everyday objects using neon lights.

The RA Schools has been a key part of the Royal Academy since its foundation in 1769. We offer a full-time, three-year programme to 10–17 postgraduate students each year. We charge no fees. We’re home to a community of artists where curiosity and …