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Inside the Academy

< 2 years ago

Meet our new Head of Collections

In the first of a new blog series, our incoming Head of Collections explores his new stomping grounds – the RA’s jewel-like library, print room and archive.

After Francesco Laurana, Bust of a Woman, possibly Ippolita Maria Sforza (detail)

Our Collection

< 2 years ago

Object of the month: October 2015

A 19th-century cast of Francesco Laurana’s bust of Maria Sforza is currently on display in the RA Library as part of Edmund de Waal’s project, ‘white’.
Eduardo Paolozzi, Designs for the mosaics on the Central Line station platforms at Tottenham Court Road

Opinion

> 2 years ago

Paolozzi’s threatened Tottenham Court Road mosaics

As parts of Eduardo Paolozzi RA’s mosaics are removed from Tottenham Court Road tube station ahead of Crossrail, Richard Cork hopes that Transport for London will honour its promises.

From left: Heinrich Brockhaus, who was the first Director of the Florence Art History Institute, with Aby Warburg, his wife Mary and Elise Brockhaus, in Warburg’s flat in Florence, c.1898.

Opinion

3 years ago

A betrayal of trust? The Warburg Library under threat

One of the the world’s foremost academic resources, London’s Warburg Institute Library, is under threat, 80 years after being saved from the Nazis. Martin Kemp argues vehemently for its survival.