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Summer Exhibition 2010

RA Magazine Blog: Singing for your supper in the name of art

Fanfare

When is the last time you were announced in a receiving line, invited to wear medals and heralded with trumpet fanfares? Unless you frequent diplomatic parties, it’s an experience from another century and one of the rituals that makes the RA’s Annual Dinner such a spectacular and eccentric experience.

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RA Magazine Blog: Open house for art

to St James's Church, Piccadilly

What is it about British summer traditions that calls for a steel band? We all expect it for the Ashes, but for art? Anyone who was in Piccadilly yesterday late morning would have noticed the extraordinary sight of a steel band stopping traffic and leading a merry band of Royal Academicians to a Calypso beat with hundreds of artists in tow. The procession led to St James’s Piccadilly for a blessing...

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RA Magazine Blog: On a Biblical scale

David Mach RA, 'Babel Towers'

Fans of David Mach RA's gorilla in the Summer Exhibition can expect more large-scale coat hanger sculptures to come, with a new project announced this week.

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