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Sheila Hicks, Chromatic Lands

RA Recommends

1 month ago

Three art shows to see this spring

Three unmissable exhibitions are happening in Birmingham, Gateshead and Wakefield. Don’t say we didn’t tell you…
George Dance RA, A woman handing a letter to another woman (detail)

RA Exhibitions

1 month ago

Wilkie Collins, Whistler and the Victorian craze for women in white

We’ve filled our galleries with Whistler, Klimt, and Rossetti’s paintings of women wearing white gowns, but what started this trend in the 1860s? Professor Lara Feigel explores the literary origins of this aesthetic moment.

Kawanabe Kyōsai, Hell Courtesan (Jigoku–dayū), Dancing Ikkyū and Skeletons

RA Recommends

2 months ago

Doughnuts, art and sake: a London tour of Japanese delights

From a noh theatre festival to centuries-old arts and crafts, via the best of East Asia’s doughnuts, Rebecca Salter PRA’s route round the capital includes cultural and culinary treats.

John Constable RA, Cloud Study, Hampstead, Tree at Right, 11 September 1821 (detail)

RA Exhibitions

5 months ago

John Constable’s struggle to become a Royal Academician

If you have ever struggled for the acceptance and glory you obviously deserve, take heart from this story of John Constable RA’s decades-long struggle to become a member of the Royal Academy of Arts.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

RA Exhibitions

6 months ago

Linton Kwesi Johnson on poetry as an act of resistance

Yinka Shonibare RA invited the renowned Brixton-based reggae poet Linton Kwesi Johnson to bring his powerful words to the Summer Exhibition. Caleb Azumah Nelson sits down with him to discuss the poetry of resistance.

Cassi Namoda, Creeping with Ancestor

RA Exhibitions

6 months ago

Five works to know in the 2021 Summer Exhibition

We enlisted art historian and founder of @ablackhistoryofart, Alayo Akinkugbe, to uncover five gems in this year’s show that capture Yinka Shonibare RA’s vision to ‘Reclaim Magic’. 


Laura Knight RA, Gypsies at Epsom (detail)

RA Recommends

6 months ago

Laura Knight RA’s compelling Gypsy paintings

Poet Sasha Dugdale reflects on Laura Knight RA’s evocative Gypsy portraits ahead of a major retrospective of the artist’s work in Milton Keynes.
Holly Hendry, Invertebrate

RA Recommends

10 months ago

8 places to see outdoor art this summer

From giant worms in Bexhill to Bronze-Age carvings in Yorkshire, there is so much art to see outside this summer.

Installation view of 'David Hockney, The Arrival of Spring, Normandy, 2020' at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 23 May — 26 September 2021.

Opinion

10 months ago

Covid and the comfort of nature

Psychiatrist Sue Stuart-Smith on how the seasons affect us all.
David Hockney, No. 316

RA Exhibitions

11 months ago

Ali Smith on David Hockney and the poetry of spring

From Virgil’s ‘Georgics’ to T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’, novelist Ali Smith explores the spirit of spring in poetry