Marina Abramović

Looking Towards Bexhill (detail)

Chantal Joffe RA, Looking Towards Bexhill (detail)

Image of the Artist

Study of a Woman from Behind (detail)

Federico Zandomeneghi, Study of a Woman from Behind (detail)

Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec

Tom Emerson and Stephanie Macdonald

New Royal Academician lecture

An evening with 6a architects

RA Collection Gallery 

Highlights from the RA Collection

no world, from An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters

Kara Walker Hon RA, no world, from An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters

Art, Colonialism and Change

Entangled Pasts, 1768–now

Taking part in an art making workshop

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Gallery view of the Young Artists’ Summer Show 2022 at the Royal Academy of Arts, London

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Portrait of Marina Abramovic

Figure drawing

Online workshop

 Saturday Sketch Club: drawing costumes

Two Dancers Resting (detail)

Edgar Degas, Two Dancers Resting (detail)

Curator talk: Impressionists on Paper

Installation view of the Architecture Wall, curated by Spencer de Grey RA

Architecture Wall 

Drawing New Lines: Voices in Swiss Architecture, 2023

Voices in Swiss Architecture

Drawing New Lines

Gorilla in the Roses (detail)

Alex Margo Arden, Gorilla in the Roses (detail)

Rock Paper Scissors

Alex Margo Arden

A make and connect workshop at the RA

Make and connect: costume

The Viola da Gamba Player (detail), from the installation ‘Naming the Money’ paperworks 

Lubaina Himid RA, The Viola da Gamba Player (detail), from the installation ‘Naming the Money’ paperworks 

'Naming the Money' paper-works

Lubaina Himid RA

family workshop

Workshops for families

Family studio: Sir Frank Bowling RA

Four Crosses: The Good (positive)

Marina Abramović, Four Crosses: The Good (positive)

An Invitation to Love Unconditionally

Workshops for early years

Early years studio: shadows

participant using gels and found images in a community workshop

Make and connect community workshop

Make and connect: Projections 

Sketch Club

, Sketch Club

Saturday Sketch Club: life drawing

Taking part in a workshop at the RA

Special educational needs and disabilities

Family workshop for children with SEND: make an impression

An early years studio workshop at the RA

Early years studio: texture

Dancers on a Bench

Edgar Degas, Dancers on a Bench

Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec 

Teachers' Private View 

Dancer Yawning (Dancer Stretching)

Edgar Degas, Dancer Yawning (Dancer Stretching)

Workshop for primary teachers 

Teachers' workshop: Impressionists on Paper

Executive Master in Cultural Leadership

Online open evening

Installation view of 'Cornelia Parker RA: Being and Un-being' in the Academicians' Room

Keeper's House Collectors' Series: Cornelia Parker RA

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884 (detail)

Georges Seurat, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884 (detail)

Weekend art history course

A history of French art: from Lascaux to Louise Bourgeois

Art made at a family studio workshop at the RA

Family studio: drawing from life

The Japanese Footbridge (detail)

Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge (detail)

Panel discussion

Impressionism, colour and contemporary painting

Breakfast in the Academicians' Room

Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec and Entangled Pasts, 1768–now

House Members' breakfast and private view

Drop in and draw

Waking Up (detail)

Federico Zandomeneghi, Waking Up (detail)

Weekend art making course

Drawing Impressionist interiors

Friends life drawing

Morning session

Friends and members life drawing

participants at a community workshop in the clore learning studio

Make and connect: clay experiments 

Sketch Club Dancers

Saturday Sketch Club: drawing dancers

A SEND workshop at the RA

Family workshop for children with SEND: our pasts

1981 South African Poster

Judy Seidman, 1981 South African Poster

Protest: art and power

Flaming June (detail)

Frederic, Lord Leighton PRA, Flaming June (detail)

Flaming June

Lady Lilith (detail)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Lady Lilith (detail)

The Pre-Raphaelites and the Royal Academy

Painting workshop

Re-imagining history painting weekend

Early years studio: buildings

The Shenkman Bar showing installation view of 'Clare Woods RA: Still Here'

Keeper's House Collectors' Series: Clare Woods RA

Armada

Installation view of the ‘Here’s the Thing’ exhibition at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 2019, showing Hew Locke RA, Armada, 2017-19

Hew Locke RA, Armada

How does art reframe history?

A family studio workshop at the RA

Family studio: print

Portrait of a Man, probably Francis Barber

Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA, Portrait of a Man, probably Francis Barber

Curator talk: Entangled Pasts, 1768–now

Self-portrait of the Artist hesitating between the Arts of Music and Painting (detail)

Angelica Kauffman, Self-portrait of the Artist hesitating between the Arts of Music and Painting (detail)

Angelica Kauffman

Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec, Entangled Pasts, 1768–now and Angelica Kauffman

Academic Programmes - Friends life drawing

Drawing portrait

Saturday Sketch Club: drawing a portrait

Body in Focus online course image

Online art making course

The body in focus

Portrait of Sarah Harrop (Mrs. Bates) as a Muse (detail)

Angelica Kauffman RA, 1741–1807, Portrait of Sarah Harrop (Mrs. Bates) as a Muse (detail)

Capturing music: painting weekend

The Sir High Casson Room showing installation view of ‘In-between: Barbara Rae RA, Emma Stibbon RA, Marion MacPhee, Sara Lee’

Keeper’s House Collectors’ Series: Barbara Rae RA, Emma Stibbon RA, Sara Lee and Marion MacPhee 

JA Projects

Storytelling and the city

An evening with JA Projects and Friends

Breakfast buffet

Entangled Pasts, 1768–now and Angelica Kauffman

Ghost Ships (detail), Imaginary Edens/Photos of my Father (detail), Untitled (detail)

 Mohini Chandra and Martina Rooney, Ghost Ships (detail), Imaginary Edens/Photos of my Father (detail), Untitled (detail)

Photo collage weekend: experimenting with alternative photographic processes

Friends Life Drawing closed up

, Friends Life Drawing closed up

An evening of poetry and spoken word

Composition VIII (detail)

Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VIII (detail)

Rhythm and emotion: a history of art and music

Watson and the Shark

John Singleton Copley RA, Watson and the Shark

Art, colonialism and change: symposium

 Drop in and Draw

Summer Exhibition Preview Party 2019

Summer Exhibition Preview Party 2024

Installation view of the Summer Exhibition 2022 at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 21 June – 21 August 2022

Summer Exhibition 2024

Carousel (detail)

Davyd Burliuk, Carousel (detail)

Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s

In the Eye of the Storm

Visiting the Young Artists' Summer Show 2023

Young Artists' Summer Show 2024

Executive Master in Cultural Leadership 2022

Self-Portrait (Aqua) (detail)

Michael Craig-Martin RA, Self-Portrait (Aqua) (detail)

Michael Craig-Martin

Virgin and Child with St Anne and the Infant St John the Baptist ('The Burlington House Cartoon') (detail)

Leonardo da Vinci, Virgin and Child with St Anne and the Infant St John the Baptist ('The Burlington House Cartoon') (detail)

Florence, c. 1504

Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael

What's on

Exhibitions

Marina Abramović

Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec

Entangled Pasts, 1768–now

Free exhibitions & displays

Highlights from the RA Collection

Architecture Wall

Image of the Artist

Talks & lectures

Curator talk: Impressionists on Paper

Executive Master in Cultural Leadership

An evening with 6a architects

Short courses

Saturday Sketch Club: drawing costumes

Saturday Sketch Club: life drawing

A history of French art: from Lascaux to Louise Bourgeois

Workshops

Family studio: Sir Frank Bowling RA

Early years studio: shadows

Family workshop for children with SEND: make an impression

Performance & film

An Invitation to Love Unconditionally

An evening of poetry and spoken word

Burlington House,

6 Burlington Gardens,