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Editorial: Shifting light

Every year, the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition becomes an annual open house of art, bringing together multifarious creative forces. The broadcaster Andrew Marr, who is speaking at the RA’s Annual...

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A bigger picture
David Hockney RA has just completed his biggest ever painting, a vast open-air landscape. Martin Gayford visits him in Yorkshire to ask how he did it, and why he thinks art should engulf us

Light fantastic
As television coverage of the RA’s Summer Exhibition focuses ever more eyes on the show, Richard Cork talks to new Academicians, as well as an elder statesman, about their attitudes to this annual panorama of art.

Point of view
Tony Cragg RA talks to Richard Cork about his love-hate relationship with the Academy and the young German artists he has selected for the sculpture gallery this year

Sea views
Alex Butterworth describes how the leisured world of the Normandy coast in the 1860s inspired the Impressionists, as the seaside became fashionable across Europe

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Zooming in on Zaha
Hugh Pearman reports on how the world’s most famous female architect is taking over the Design Museum.

Music to the eyes
A trio of shows celebrates how art tunes into music, notes Serena Davies

Tempting
Serena Davies on the temptations of Lucas Cranach’s Adam and Eve at the Courtauld.

Shining vessels
From ceramics to silver, contemporary craft stars in two special shows, writes Emma Crichton-Miller

Green and pleasant
Two shows are celebrating the centenary of the birth of American philanthropist and art collector Paul Mellon

The art of landscape
Emma Crichton-Miller ventures into the great outdoors in search of the best sculpture displays this summer

Scottish summer
To coincide with Edinburgh’s annual culture-fest, Peter Murray picks three shows not to be missed

School's out
Serena Davies spots new talent at summer exhibitions of recent art school graduates

The artful shopper
Scott Reyburn points to a new boom in contemporary prints

Moving skies
The Ullens Collection of watercolours by JMW Turner goes on sale at Sotheby's

Books and comment

Guilty pleasure
Broadcaster Andrew Marr on the Summer Exhibition

True to life
Edmund Fawcett reviews Linda Nochlin's Courbet

Academy

Second life
Over lunch at a restaurant he designed, the new RA Michael Craig-Martin tells Sarah Greenberg about how his career has taken off since turning 60

Assembly space
Fiona Maddocks visits the sculptor Bill Woodrow RA in his London studio and finds his minimal surroundings free him from distractions

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