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Acting Editor Nigel Billen on an institution that has stayed the course

What will future generations be drawn to when they look back to the 2009 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition? It’s a question that sprang to mind as we began researching the exhibition of 1888 in connection...

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J. W. Waterhouse

A Victorian summer
Frank Whitford evokes the Summer Exhibition of 1888, the year that Waterhouse submitted The Lady of Shalott, while Paul Cox re-interprets W. P. Frith's painting of a nineteenth-century RA private view

Waterhouse muse
What is the link between Waterhouse and Keira Knightley? Debra N. Mancoff explains

Summer Exhibition

Making space
Martin Gayford follows the process of selecting and hanging this year's Summer Exhibition

Inside the Academy

Out to lunch: Ken Howard RA
He has painted Ulster’s Troubles and the light in Venice but, as he tells Nigel Billen over lunch, Ken Howard RA prefers not to be called an artist

Web extra: Model students
View a gallery of images from the High Fashion magazine shoot, as mentioned on page 71 of RA Magazine Summer 2009

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RA Magazine Editorial: Tales of the unexpected

Who at some point has not felt like Jacob wrestling with the angel? The Bible tells of a mortal struggling with the Divine, holding fast to the angel all through the night and refusing to let go until, at dawn, he prevails and receives a blessing – an answer to his prayers.

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