Artists

1 year ago

Creative tips for botanical drawing

Join artist Laxmi Hussain to learn how to arrange your plants and experiment with continuous line drawing.

ABC at the Summer Exhibition Preview Party 2016

RA Exhibitions

< 6 years ago

In pictures: Summer Exhibition Preview Party 2016

The official launch of the Summer Exhibition 2016 welcomed some of London’s most celebrated artists and art lovers to Burlington House.

Ai Weiwei presenting his installation Tree in the courtyard at the Royal Academy of Arts, 2015

RA Exhibitions

> 6 years ago

Ai Weiwei: podcast round-up

From a curator’s introduction to the work of Ai Weiwei, to Cornelia Parker RA discussing the artist’s destructive techniques, we present a round-up of podcasts on our blockbuster exhibition.

The Royal Academy on the evening of the Summer Exhibition Preview Party

RA Exhibitions

< 7 years ago

In pictures: Summer Exhibition Preview Party

The Summer Exhibition Preview Party is one of the most glamorous events in the London calendar – and a major fundraiser for the RA.

RA Exhibitions

> 7 years ago

Podcast: Art critic Jonathan Jones discusses Moroni’s portrait ‘The Tailor’

Jonathan Jones of The Guardian explores the reasons why Giovanni Battista Moroni’s portrait ‘The Tailor’ is one of the greatest paintings in London.

RA Exhibitions

> 7 years ago

Podcast: Anselm Kiefer’s Heroic Symbols

A panel discussion reconsiders Anselm Kiefer’s 1969 book ‘Heroic Symbols’ which documented his provocative performance art project known as ‘Occupations’.

Giovanni Battista Moroni, Portrait of M. A. Savelli

RA Exhibitions

> 7 years ago

Podcast: An introduction to Moroni by curator Arturo Galansino

From the small northern Italian town of Bergamo emerged one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th-century. Who was Giovanni Battista Moroni?

Inside the Academy

> 7 years ago

The Swinging Sixties come to the RA

Last weekend saw a ‘groovy’ Late event at the RA, in collaboration with University of the Arts London, inspired by ‘Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album’.

Aerial view in Culture, Craft & Commerce

Opinion

> 7 years ago

‘A smorgasboard of delights’: Ideas for Reimagining Mayfair

Planning expert Matthew Carmona, a panellist at the public presentation of our Reimagining Mayfair project, reflects on the intriguing ideas that arose from it.

RA Exhibitions

> 7 years ago

Podcast: Curator Kathleen Soriano on Kiefer’s iconography

How does artist Anselm Kiefer use mythology, history, literature, philosophy and science in his work? What meanings do lead, straw, fire, earth, and water hold for him?

Inside the Academy

> 7 years ago

Short stories with Lionel Shriver

Orange Prize-winning novelist Lionel Shriver treats us to a short story reading.

Inside the Academy

> 7 years ago

Short stories with Tim Winton

Internationally esteemed novelist Tim Winton reads from his collection of short stories ‘The Turning’.

Inside the Academy

< 8 years ago

Out and about with the Friends of the RA

Friends Events Coordinator Courtney Cooke explains how her team formulates ideas for events, and how you can join us on one of these exclusive trips.

Opinion

< 8 years ago

What makes a city work?

Imogen Willetts, of the RA’s Architecture Programme, reports on our recent event in which Charles Leadbeater discusses his book ‘The London Recipe: How Systems and Empathy make the City’.

Inside the Academy

< 8 years ago

Summer comes alive at our Midsummer Night’s Fête

Celebrate the Solstice with the RA. We’ve got blues, burlesque and barnstorming yarns for you at our very special late night event.

RA Exhibitions

< 8 years ago

Opening the Summer Exhibition in style

The Summer Exhibition Preview Party is one of the most glamorous events in the London calendar - and a major fundraiser for the RA.

Inside the Academy

< 8 years ago

Family fun: time to rhyme at the RA

If you came down to the RA last Sunday, you were sure of a big surprise…

Domenico Beccafumi, Group of Men and Women

RA Exhibitions

< 8 years ago

Experimentations in Chiaroscuro: Beccafumi’s Prints, Oil Sketches and Marble Intarsia

National Gallery curator, Dr. Jennifer Sliwka, discusses the works of Domenico Beccafumi.

Installation view of Gallery VI. Summer Exhibition 2013.

Inside the Academy

8 years ago

A summer of architecture

Hot on the heels of ‘Sensing Spaces’ we have an exciting programme of architecture events and exhibitions coming up this summer.

Installation (Blue Pavilion) by Pezo von Ellrichshausen

Opinion

8 years ago

Wandering Words

‘Sensing Spaces’ was a transformative exhibition for the RA in lots of ways and from the beginning we wanted to break new ground in the types of events we organised for it.