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Inside the Academy

5 months ago

Photography tips: how to take the perfect portrait

From choosing the right lens to creating depth of field, photographer John Nassari has been showing Friends of the RA show to take great photo portraits. Here are his top five tips.

Opinion

11 months ago

Chantal Joffe RA delights in the photographs of Julia Margaret Cameron

As two new shows celebrate the 200th anniversary of Julia Margaret Cameron, painter Chantal Joffe RA explains why her photographs interest and inspire her.

Artists

< 2 years ago

Behind the mask: Gillian Wearing RA

Shortlisted for a major European art award, the Royal Academician tells us about her recent work on show in The Hague.

Inside the Academy

2 years ago

Find out what happens at an RA photography workshop

Have you ever walked around London and wished you’d had a camera to hand and the confidence to capture the street life of the capital?

RA Exhibitions

2 years ago

Peter Fonda in Conversation

In celebration of the RA’s exhibition ‘Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album’, the BFI hosted a special event with Peter Fonda.

Artists

> 2 years ago

Ed Ruscha remembers Dennis Hopper

As the RA prepares for ‘Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album’, Honorary Royal Academician Ed Ruscha reflects on his friendship with the legendary actor, director and photographer in 1960s Los Angeles and beyond.

RA Exhibitions

> 2 years ago

Dennis Hopper’s photography comes to the RA

Dennis Hopper was the epitome of 1960s American counter-culture. As an exhibition of the actor and director’s photographs comes to the RA, Jonathan Romney assesses this diverse body of work to reveal an astute chronicler of the art, celebrity and tense American politics of the period.

Opinion

> 2 years ago

Stargazing

Bailey’s latest exhibition, which opened in February at the NPG, has reopened an age-old debate about how what counts as art.

RA Recommends

> 2 years ago

Stanley Spencer, Frank Gehry, and Alison Wilding RA

From Tate Liverpool’s new Duveen commission to the World Press Photo Exhibition: everything worth seeing this week.