Articles
RA Magazine Spring 2017
RA Recommends
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The new museum putting Potsdam on the map
The billionaire software entrepreneur Hasso Plattner has made Potsdam an international art destination with the opening of his Museum Barberini.
Artists
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The many masks of Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun
As a new show at the National Portrait Gallery places the two artists side by side, Lauren Elkin explores how Gillian Wearing RA finds identity-blurring inspiration in the inter-war writer and photographer Claude Cahun.
Inside the Academy
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Behind the scenes: a new home for the RA Collections
While it’s business as usual in the galleries, elsewhere at the RA major building work is transforming the Academy for 2018. Exhibition designer Adrien Gardère and RA President Christopher Le Brun explore how the plans will reveal the historic RA Collections to the public.
RA Exhibitions
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The tale of Russia’s revolutionary ceramics
Emma Crichton-Miller charts the fortunes of St Petersburg’s porcelain factory, from supplier of exclusive editions to the Russian court, to producer of high end Soviet agit-prop.
RA Exhibitions
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A designer collection: Cath Kidston on the art in her life
With prints on her walls by Calder, Klee and Keith Haring, Cath Kidston has long been an avid collector, and the London Original Print Fair has been the designer’s hunting ground. Martin Gayford went to see the works adorning her Gloucestershire home.
RA Recommends
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The draw of the Downs: Sussex in the spotlight
Sussex has long been a crucible for artistic activity, from the Bloomsbury set at Charleston to Constable’s Brighton escapades, writes Ian Warrell as four new exhibitions open.
RA Recommends
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The best art books for foodies
Rebecca Salter RA brings her artist’s palate to matters of taste, in a delicious round-up of the best books on art and food.
Inside the Academy
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“It’s like making a garden” – Gary Hume RA on printmaking
He shot to fame as a painter, but for the past 20 years Gary Hume RA has also made prints. Amy Macpherson visits him at the RA Schools’ print workshop ahead of his selling show in the Keeper’s House.
Artists
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In the studio with Wolfgang Tillmans RA
The photographer’s workspace in a former Berlin department store houses giant printers, tropical plants and DJ turntables. Anna Coatman meets the acclaimed artist and EU campaigner.
RA Recommends
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Keeping it in the family: the Bruegel dynasty at Holburne Museum
A show on the Bruegel dynasty celebrates a reattribution of a key painting, says Laura Cumming.
RA Exhibitions
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The reality behind American Gothic
As ‘America after the Fall’ brings some of the country’s most iconic works to Europe for the first time, Sarah Churchwell considers the cultural and political backdrop to Depression Era art.
Opinion
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Debate: is colour purely subjective?
Can we consider colours as purely subjective forces? Kassia St Clair and Emyr Williams go head to head. Vote on the winner below.
RA Recommends
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How do you get from the “American dream” to the Japanese house?
Sam Phillips finds the dotted line from the British Museum’s American prints through to Japanese architecture at the Barbican, in six sizzling spring shows.