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Forget Spring - Summer is definitely in the air at the RA. As London basks in an unseasonal warm spell, how appropriate that the first Summer Exhibition entries have started to arrive.
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Yesterday was Non-Members Varnishing Day at the Royal Academy, the first chance for artists selected for the Summer Exhibition to see their work displayed in the galleries.
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The RA Annual Dinner feels like walking into a fairytale banquet: men wear white tie and medals, ladies wear evening gowns with glittering jewels, trumpeters play a fanfare into dinner and the British arts establishment sups surrounded by the paintings of the Summer Exhibition and the historic silver that has been donated by Royal Academicians since the RA was founded in 1768.
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Each week during the Summer Exhibition we'll be taking a closer look at a work, or group of works, in the show. This week, Olu Shobowale discusses his work 'Chicken Chair' which can be found in the Large Weston Room.
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Each week during the Summer Exhibition we'll be taking a closer look at a work, or group of works, in the show. This week, Cornelia Parker RA discusses her work 'Brontëan Abstractions (Deletions from the Original Manuscript of ‘Jane Eyre’)' which can be found in the Large Weston Room.
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Each week during the Summer Exhibition we'll be taking a closer look at a work, or group of works, in the show. This week, Anne Desmet RA discusses her works Olympic Shadows, London Olympic Velodrome, Olympic Aquatics Centre in construction, and London Olympic Site - WWII Archaeology which can be found in Gallery I. Posted: 27 June 2012 by Amy Macpherson, RA Website Editor.
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This week, the architect Chris Wilkinson RA discusses his installation 'From Landscape to Portrait' in the Royal Academy's Annenberg Courtyard.
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Each week during the Summer Exhibition we're taking a closer look at a work, or group of works, in the show. This week, Royal Academician Tom Phillips discusses his work The Seven Ages of Man which can be found in Gallery V.
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Dance and architecture seem like very different disciplines, so how can one respond to the other? The choreographer Katie Green rose to the challenge with her recent commission for the Royal Academy's Courtyard, a site-specific dance in and around Chris Wilkinson RA's architectural installation 'From Landscape to Portrait'.
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Each week during the Summer Exhibition we're taking a closer look at a work, or group of works, in the show. This week, first-time exhibitor David Webb discusses his work 'Laguna San Ignacio' which can be found in Gallery III.
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Each week during the Summer Exhibition we're taking a closer look at a work, or group of works, in the show. This week, printmaker Martin Langford discusses his work Tunnel Vision which can be found in Gallery III.
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Each week during the Summer Exhibition we've taken a closer look at a work, or group of works, in the show. This week, in our final video, architect Roz Barr discusses her model 'Vaal’ – New Church Valer which can be found in Gallery VI. The Summer Exhibition closes on 12 August.
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