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Alice Primrose
RA Recommends
5 months ago
10 art exhibitions to see in June
From giant hammocks to swollen balloons to cyborg limbs, zeppelins, dancers and animals – the UK’s art galleries are filled with some exciting stuff this month. Here’s what we recommend seeing.
Artists
6 months ago
Eva Rothschild RA: “making things feels political”
With news that the Irish artist has been selected to represent her country at the 2019 Venice Biennale, we meet Eva Rothschild in her London studio to talk being a sculptor, parent and feminist.
RA Recommends
6 months ago
7 new art galleries to visit in 2018
With the new RA now open, we’re also celebrating other exciting art gallery unveilings this year – some brand new, some renovated, some finding new homes in unlikely places from swimming baths to an observatory. Here are a few to visit while you can still smell the fresh paint.
RA Recommends
8 months ago
10 art shows to see in March
Spring has sprung, and so have many new exhibitions. From an architectural detective agency to a history of cross-dressing, here are some of the best art shows to see this month.
RA Recommends
10 months ago
11 art events to look forward to in 2018
Exhibitions, commissions, transformations and brand spanking new galleries – there’s a lot to look forward to in 2018. Here are some art highlights to mark in that new diary your grandma gave you for Christmas.
RA Exhibitions
12 months ago
Six secrets from Matisse’s studio
When Henri Cartier-Bresson photographed Matisse in his seventies sketching in his studio, he also captured many of the objects that inspired the artist throughout his career. Here we take a closer look at six items that surrounded Matisse at work.
RA Exhibitions
12 months ago
Jasper Johns: 10 works to know
Over the past six decades, Jasper Johns’s paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints have left an indelible mark on art. With the RA showing a major survey of his practice to date, here’s a closer look at ten of his key works.
RA Recommends
12 months ago
10 art exhibitions to see in November
Remember, remember the month of November – gunpowder, treason and… art? If you’re not too busy with bonfires, toffee apples or toppling the government, here are a few art shows we recommend catching this month.
Artists
> 1 year ago
Eileen Cooper: “Artists love to say they’re unique. We’re not”
With two solo shows this year, her final months as the Keeper of the Royal Academy Schools and the job of coordinating this year’s Summer Exhibition, it’s a busy time for Eileen Cooper. In the latest in our ‘As I see it’ series, the artist talks bad reviews, good dogs, and what she’ll do once all this work is done.
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> 1 year ago
Protest power: 11 artworks that spilled into the street
As protest marches find renewed relevance and the Imperial War Museum looks back at 100 years of peace protests in its latest show, here are 11 images by artists that have come to the aid of political movements from the 1950s to today.
Artists
> 1 year ago
Tony Cragg: “sculpture is a vital sign”
How do you make work indoors that’s destined for a life outdoors? With the opening of his exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the artist discusses the realities of making art surrounded by rats, sunshine and Henry Moore.
RA Exhibitions
< 2 years ago
Six views of America
As a new term in the White House divides America, we look back to another time of social upheaval and economic anxiety. Here are six snapshots of a changing country, as depicted by 1930s artists in the RA’s upcoming exhibition, ‘America after the Fall’, and then by contemporary painters in 21st century USA.
Artists
< 2 years ago
How I made it: Ruins by Eva Rothschild RA
“There’s a loss of confidence in structures that we thought we could rely on, a sense of order that’s crumbling” – Eva Rothschild RA on the ideas and production behind her recent installation, Ruins.
RA Recommends
< 2 years ago
Five art shows to see this week: BALTIC, Jewish Museum and more
From overlooked ceramicists to the untold stories of artists’ assistants, we unearth the best art to see this week.
RA Recommends
< 2 years ago
Five art shows to see this week: virtual reality, Japanese photography and more
From raucous performance art in Glasgow to a multicoloured adventure into the world of 1970s disco dancefloors, here’s the best art to see this week.
RA Recommends
< 2 years ago
Five art shows to see this week: Lucy Sparrow, Artes Mundi 7 and more
From the search for an art installation among England’s trees, to a one-woman operation to make a supermarket entirely of felt, here’s some of the best art to see this week.
RA Recommends
< 2 years ago
Five art shows to see this week: British Museum, Walker and more
A golden rhinoceros from South Africa, decorated drones from Pakistan and digital creatures from behind the computer screen – here’s some of the best art to see this week.
RA Recommends
2 years ago
This week: five top art shows to see
From sculptural works made of everyday materials, to photographic works savouring everyday moments, the ordinary seems extraordinary in the best art shows this week.
RA Recommends
2 years ago
This week: five top art shows to see
From a road trip chasing presidents’ hometowns in the USA, to galleries filled with pebbles, trees and dancers, we explore the best art for the week ahead.
RA Recommends
2 years ago
This week: five top art shows to see
From the reconstruction of human faces through prosthetic advancements during WWI, to the reconstruction of farmyard animals’ faces using marble dust and resin, we take in the best shows to see this week.
RA Recommends
2 years ago
This week: five top art shows to see
From a project tracing Lithuania’s toppled political statues, to a show of flesh in its many forms, here’s our pick the week’s top art shows.
RA Recommends
2 years ago
Our pick of this week’s art events: 16 – 22 September
From films about trainspotters, darts players and fetishists, to capturing the simple joy of watching clouds go by, we guide you through the best of this week’s art events and exhibitions.
RA Recommends
2 years ago
Our pick of this week’s art events: 9 – 15 September
From a Brutalist labyrinth in the heart of London, to the baroque grandeur of a countryside palace, here’s where to find the best art this week.
RA Recommends
2 years ago
Our pick of this week’s art events: 2 – 8 September
From the sinister cells of Reading Prison to a pocket of glittering rebellion in the shadows off Brick Lane, here’s where to find the best art this week.
RA Recommends
2 years ago
Our pick of this week’s art events: 26 August – 1 September
From underwater theatre in the Square Mile to the bright lights of Blackpool, we guide you through the best of this week’s art events and exhibitions.