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The Royal Academy offers a rich and varied programme of educational events and resources available for adults. Click on the links below for more information on our Adult programme.
Talks | Tours | Exclusive Friends Events | Special Events | Adult Courses and Workshops Conferences and Symposia | Catch Up Online | Archive of Past Events and Lectures
Gallery Tour of the 'Paul Sandby' exhibition delivered by Will Bishop Stephens, for workers from Portugal Prints June 2010
Why not complement your visit to an exhibition with an illustrated talk? Our evening lectures examine in-depth the artists and themes explored in our exhibitions, while free lunchtime lectures take a more introductory approach. Curators’ gallery talks, 10-minute spotlight talks and RA forums also contribute to this varied and exciting programme.
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Mali Morris RA speaking about her work in the Summer Exhibition 2010 Enhance your visit to our galleries with an exhibition tour, organized for all main exhibitions, plus behind-the-scenes tours of the Royal Academy’s Collection, Library, Archive and John Madejski Fine Rooms.
All Access events, including early morning private views for wheelchair users, audio-descriptive events and BSL and Lipspeaking tours are also listed here.
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The Jellicoe Forecourt at Cottesbrooke Hall Gardens. © Jerry Harpur Images As a Friend of the RA, you have further access to a range of excursions throughout the year, ranging from visits to London venues to coach trips to stately homes.
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We also provide Friends of the RA Worldwide Tours, in partnership with Cox & Kings. A variety of expert-led art tours are on offer, focusing on the art, architecture and culture of some of the world’s most fascinating destinations.
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Roman mosaic, Villa Romana del Casale, Sicily
The Finzi Quartet at the Royal College of Music. Photograph by Chris Christodoulou In addition to talks and lectures that complement the main exhibition programme, we also organise special events, which can either be one-offs like a wine tasting, or a series, such as the annual Royal College of Music lunchtime concerts we run in May. These special events occur throughout the year.
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Street Photography Workshop in Brick Lane. Photo by Roy MatthewsLearn new skills and take part in hands-on activities in these supplementary courses and workshops. These more in-depth sessions are great for getting an overview of a subject or setting an exhibition into a wider context.
From life-drawing to photography, our workshops cover a variety of art-making subjects. Some courses may take place over two days.
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RA Learning also offers opportunities to learn more in an academic setting via conferences, symposia and study days. These events, which can occur off-site, invite speakers to debate, discuss and share their knowledge and opinions.
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Beatrice Behlen, far left, and Daphne Guinness, far right, speaking at a Salon event, January 2011
If you miss a talk, many are recorded and are available for download via this website or our events podcast channel. What is a podcast? Click here to find out more.
To directly download recordings of individual events please follow the link below:
List of recorded events for download
Details of our exhibition-related adult events from the past five years have been archived here:
2012 Events and Lectures
relating to the following exhibitions:
David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture
Johan Zoffany RA: Society Observed
From Paris: A Taste for Impressionism – Paintings from the Clark
Bronze
Mariko Mori: Rebirth
Constable, Gainsborough, Turner and the Making of Landscape
2011 Events and Lectures
relating to the following exhibitions:
Watteau: The Drawings
GSK Contemporary - Aware: Art Fashion Identity
Modern British Sculpture
Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th Century
Brassaï, Capa, Kertész, Moholy-Nagy, Munkácsi
Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement
Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935
2010 Events and Lectures
relating to the following exhibitions:
The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters
Paul Sandby RA: Picturing Britain, A Bicentenary Exhibition
Summer Exhibition 2010
Sargent and the Sea
Artists' Laboratory 01: Ian McKeever RA
Treasures from Budapest: European Masterpieces from Leonardo to Schiele
Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880-1900
Artists' Laboratory 02: Stephen Farthing RA
2009 Events and Lectures
relating to the following exhibitions:
Andrea Palladio
Kuniyoshi
Summer Exhibition 2009
J.W. Waterhouse
Wild Thing
Anish Kapoor
2008 Events and Lectures
relating to the following exhibitions:
From Russia
Cranach
Summer Exhibition 2008
Vilhelm Hammershøi: The Poetry of Silence
Miro, Calder, Giacometti, Braque: Aimé Maeght and His Artists
Byzantium 330-1453
2007 Events and Lectures
relating to the following exhibitions:
Chola: Sacred Bronzes of Southern India
Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution, 1760—1830
The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings
Summer Exhibition 2007
Impressionists by the Sea
Making History: Antiquaries in Britain, 1707-2007
Georg Baselitz
An American's Passion for British Art: Paul Mellon's Legacy
2006 Events and Lectures
relating to the following exhibitions:
China: The Three Emperors, 1662—1795
Jacob van Ruisdael: Master of Landscape
Summer Exhibition 2006
Modigliani and His Models
Rodin
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