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Articles

RA Magazine Winter 2019

Léon Spilliaert, Hofstraat, Ostend

Artists

> 2 years ago

In the early hours with Léon Spilliaert

Léon Spilliaert’s strange nocturnal atmospheres are pregnant with mystery and silence. Novelist Alan Hollinghurst explores the Belgian artist’s shadowy interiors, shelterless landscapes and probing self-portraits.
Pablo Picasso, Femmes à leur toilette (detail)

RA Exhibitions

> 2 years ago

On the paper trail of Pablo Picasso

Antique drawing sheets, Paris metro tickets and lavish wallpapers – the medium of paper was a living ground for the unassailable creative genius of Pablo Picasso. Julian Bell previews our groundbreaking exhibition, Picasso and Paper.

An architectural rendering of of the Grand Egyptian Museum, by Heneghan Peng Architects

RA Recommends

> 2 years ago

10 exhibitions worth travelling to in 2020

From the largest-ever assemblage of works by Jan van Eyck, to the unveiling of the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum, 2020 promises to bring into focus some of the finest achievements in cultural history.
Danna Walker, Director of Built by Us

Opinion

> 2 years ago

“It’s about acceptance” – the drive to make architecture more inclusive

The founder and director of Built By Us, a social enterprise that champions inclusion in architecture and the construction sector, is convinced that diversity is about far more than recruitment. Lois Innes reports.
HeHe, Domestic catastrophe N°3: La Planète Laboratoire

RA Exhibitions

> 2 years ago

Can artists and designers help save the world?

Our exhibition, ‘Eco-Visionaries’, not only reflects a planet undergoing profound change but proposes ways to adapt without succumbing to apathy or inertia.

Dora Maar, The Conversation (detail)

Opinion

> 2 years ago

Dora Maar: more than a muse

A Tate Modern survey show of the Surrealist Dora Maar reveals the artist’s questing imagination, writes Professor Dawn Adès.
Edward Burne-Jones ARA, Helen's Tears, drawing from ‘The Flower Book’ (detail)

Opinion

> 2 years ago

The many faces of Helen of Troy

As the British Museum launch a new exhibition on the ancient city of Troy, classicist Natalie Haynes reveals the tensions and contradictions at the heart of literature’s most intriguing siren.
Alice Wilding RA and Cathie Pilkington RA with their installation 'The Ancestors'

Our Collection

> 2 years ago

Artists Cathie Pilkington and Alison Wilding on ‘The Ancestors’

Fiona Maddocks meets the former teacher and pupil duo about their co-curated project on their Academy forebears.