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The RA Schools is a unique environment – the only UK institution to offer a three-year, full-time postgraduate fine arts course. Tucked into the back of Burlington House, this network of corridors, offices and studios is normally a hive of behind-the-scenes activity (and perhaps the odd haunting). But for ten days each year, the annual Schools Show sees the doors thrown open and the historic studios...

RA Schools was a hive of youthful energy this week, as some 30 young people who regularly take part in education programmes at five London galleries – the RA, Tate Britain, Whitechapel Gallery, South London Gallery and Hayward Gallery – were brought together for the first Summer Academy of the Louis Vuitton Young Arts Project. The week-long series of workshops, talks and other activities primed...

Like many historic buildings in London, the Royal Academy has its fair share of ghost stories - and artist Blue Firth collects them. The RA Schools student's work deals with creating a 'supernatural archive' of Burlington House. Her research has now entered a new stage - a late night vigil in the RA Schools, open to members of the public.

Last year we introduced you to the Louis Vuitton Young Arts Project, a programme of activities for young people and the joint effort of five London galleries including the Royal Academy. The fruits of their labours can now be seen in 'Art Imposters' a free exhibition in the gallery at Louis Vuitton Maison in New Bond Street.

For ten days each year, the RA Schools Show sees the studios of the Royal Academy Schools transformed into stunning gallery spaces that showcase the work of the graduating class. We spoke to four of the students about their work and what it's like to study at the Schools.

With the exception of the annual Schools Show, the RA Schools studios and workshop spaces are generally hidden from public view. This week, a group of RA patrons and Friends Ambassador Emilia Fox had a sneak peak into the world of the Schools in a behind-the-scenes printmaking workshop

In the first video of a two-part series on RA Editions, Stephen Chambers RA discusses the inspiration behind his work 'Double St. Joan' and the process of realising it in print.

RA Schools’ students tend to see their three years of postgraduate study as a period to develop their work away from the glare of galleries and critics. But London-born artist Eddie Peake (b. 1981) has combined his time so far on the course with high-profile forays into the hyped-up wider art world.

Anthony Francis, an alumnus of the RA Schools, combines science and art on canvas by mixing silicone and oil paint. His new paintings form the show ‘Looking Glass Land’ at Sarah Myerscough Fine Art. The exhibition is a sea of colour. His works are bold, brightly-coloured, abstract phenomena, some of his canvases are flat, while others are built up into 3D relief.

Each year the Premiums exhibition gives the public a chance to see the work of RA Schools students at an interim point in their three-year postgraduate studies. The exhibition reflects the diversity of practice at the Schools and this year is no exception; with painting, sculpture, video and photography all represented. We spoke to three of the students about their work, and discovered some interesting...

The Royal Academy's annual Premiums exhibition gives the public a chance to see the work of RA Schools students at an interim point in their three-year postgraduate studies.

As the RA's Premiums exhibition draws to a close (tomorrow is your last chance to see work by these second-year postgraduate students in the RA Schools), here are three more interviews with this year's exhibiting artists.

In the second part of our focus on new prints from RA Editions, RA Schools graduate Liane Lang discusses her etching 'Europe (Albert Memorial)'.

The RA Schools Show, which opens today, showcases the work of the 16 students who this year complete the three-year postgraduate fine art course in the RA Schools. We spoke to three of this year's students as they were installing their work in the Schools' historic studios, transformed into a contemporary gallery space for the run of the exhibition:

The 2013 Premiums Interim Projects exhibition is currently on at the RA's Burlington Gardens site, and provides a great opportunity to see the work of RA Schools students at the midway point in their three-year postgraduate course.

Rather than the reverent silence one anticipates on a visit to an art gallery, last Saturday as I walked into White Cube Bermondsey a sound system was banging out UK bass music. In a large gallery in front of the public, artist Eddie Peake was rehearsing a performance piece, in which – to live music played by two musicians – a small group of dancer-actors made shapes to high-tempo beats, writhed...

RA Magazine featured British painter Lynette Yiadom-Boakye last year in an article that caught up with graduates of the RA Schools. The London-born artist, who left the Schools in 2003, has a solo show on view until 13 May at Chisenhale Gallery, a space in the east of the city which has built an international reputation over 30 years for its enlightened contemporary art programme.

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye was today announced as a nominee for the Turner Prize 2013, a decade after she completed a post-graduate course at the Royal Academy Schools.

The RA Schools Show showcases the work of the 17 students who this year complete the three-year postgraduate fine art course in the RA Schools. In these videos we speak to two of the class of 2013, James Robertson and Marie von Heyl, about the work they will be showing in the exhibition.