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Allen Jones RA

Allen Jones RA, Chair

RA Exhibitions

> 6 years ago

Podcast: Allen Jones, ‘Chair’

This intimate salon explores Allen Jones’s controversial work ‘Chair’ and its changing status as a piece of fine art, an erotic sculpture and an object of attack.

Allen Jones RA

Artists

> 6 years ago

My studio life: Allen Jones RA

We visited Allen Jones RA in his Oxfordshire studio, where he talked about his transition from painting to sculpture, and about painting Kate Moss.
Installation shot of room 6, Allen Jones RA at the Royal Academy

Opinion

< 7 years ago

Allen Jones: Pop Art meets Miley Cyrus?

Like many of today’s pop culture icons, Allen Jones’s work has sparked celebration and uproar. Chris Fite-Wassilak introduces an artist who made us blush 40 years before Miley.
Installation view of 'Allen Jones RA'. Photo: Benedict Johnson.

Opinion

< 7 years ago

When paint stripper was thrown over Allen Jones’s ‘Chair’

In 1986 paint stripper was thrown over Allen Jones’s sculpture ‘Chair’ (1969) during a Tate show. Alison Bracker talks to conservator Lyndsey Morgan about her experience restoring the work in the face of controversy.
Allen Jones RA, Body Armour

Opinion

< 7 years ago

Grace Woodward: can a feminist love Allen Jones?

The presenter, fashion commentator, stylist and feminist explains why she identifies with Allen Jones’s controversial works and picks a few of her favourites.

RA Exhibitions

< 7 years ago

Allen Jones on reinventing art

Allen Jones RA has been at the centre of artistic battles between abstraction and figuration, painting and sculpture, design and fine art. Martin Gayford meets the influential Pop artist whose retrospective is currently at the Royal Academy.

Juergen Teller, Gordon Ramsay, David Hockney and Allen Jones having lunch at Ramsay's Claridge's restaurant

Artists

< 7 years ago

When David Hockney, Allen Jones and Gordon Ramsay met for lunch

In an article from the RA Magazine archive, we find out what happened when two Academicians joined Gordon Ramsay at his Claridge’s restaurant.
Allen Jones RA, Spice Island

Our Collection

< 7 years ago

Object of the month: November 2014

Typical of the work of Allen Jones RA in its examination of the voyeuristic gaze, this print depicts the psychology of human interaction in bold unmodulated colours.
Allen Jones RA, Refrigerator (detail)

Artists

< 7 years ago

From the archive: The iconography of Allen Jones RA

Revisit this exploration of the meaning of Jones’s works, ahead of his first major retrospective in Burlington Gardens.
What happens in the studio

RA Exhibitions

7 years ago

Allen Jones RA on display at the RA: Step this way

One of the key moments in modern British art occurred one day in 1965, when Allen Jones RA, then in his late 20s, first stepped inside an American casino. Kelly Grovier spotlights the Pop artist’s first step towards iconic status, as the Academy mounts a major show of his work.