Press
Welcome to the RA Press Office
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Contact us
Email press.office@royalacademy.org.uk or call +44 20 7300 5615.
Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Press team is working remotely. During this time, please email us and a member of the team will respond to your enquiry. The RA Press Office hours are 9.30am – 5.30pm Monday to Friday.
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Press Information
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Press images and press releases
Links to exhibition press images can be found in the relevant press release or contact the Press Office.
Please view or download press releases in advance of your visit (see below) or contact the Press Office.
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Press access
Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, we currently have a reduced capacity for access to the RA with safety measures in place. All visitors, including press, must contact us and have a pre-booked exhibition ticket slot in order to access the RA. Please email Press.office@royalacademy.org.uk.
For information on new press access measures and how to book: Press Access Guidance
We hold dedicated Press Views for every exhibition, please contact the Press Office for information. If you are unable to attend a Press View, please contact the Press Office in advance to request press access to an exhibition. Gallery staff are only able to admit those who have pre-arranged a press pass. Please note, during the final two weeks of an exhibition we are unable to offer press passes.
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Filming and photography
The Press Office will always try to accommodate filming and photography at the Royal Academy where possible.
To enquire about conducting news filming or photography outside of our Press Views, please contact the Press Office with details of your request. Filming will need to be arranged outside of public opening hours.
If you would like to enquire about using the Royal Academy as a film or commercial photoshoot location (e.g. for a film or TV show), contact the Press Office.
All filming and photography must be arranged with the Press Office in advance.
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News from the RA
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![Yinka Shonibare DP SE21 committee 4x3]()
The Royal Academy of Arts announces the 253rd Summer Exhibition committee with Yinka Shonibare RA as co-ordinator
Renowned British artist Yinka Shonibare RA will co-ordinate the 253rd Summer Exhibition in 2021. The Summer Exhibition Committee members are Royal Academicians Tony Bevan, Vanessa Jackson, Mali Morris, Humphrey Ocean, Eva Rothschild, Bob and Roberta Smith and Emma Stibbon. David Adjaye will curate the Architecture Gallery. The committee will be chaired by the President of the Royal Academy, Rebecca Salter.
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Vicky Richardson appointed Head of Architecture and Heinz Curator
The Royal Academy of Arts announced today that Vicky Richardson has been appointed Head of Architecture and Heinz Curator. She replaces Kate Goodwin, who is moving on to new opportunities from the role after 17 years.
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Royal Academy of Arts Revised Exhibition Programme 2021
4 March 2021
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News from the Academy
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![, Bacon Crucifixion 4x3]()
Media statement from the Royal Academy of Arts
6 January 2021
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BCKJ Architects from China named winners of the 2020 Royal Academy Dorfman Award for Architecture
The Royal Academy of Arts announced this evening on Thursday 3 December 2020 at an online presentation, that Dong Mei and Liu Xiaochuan, of BCKJ Architects, an architectural practice from China, have been awarded the 2020 Royal Academy Dorfman Award, honouring an international talent that represents the future of architecture.
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Media statement from the Royal Academy of Arts
3 November 2020
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Forthcoming and current exhibition press packs
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Michael Armitage: Paradise Edict
The Jillian and Arthur M. Sackler Wing of Galleries
In May 2021, the Royal Academy of Arts will present Michael Armitage: Paradise Edict. Born in Kenya in 1984, Michael Armitage graduated from the RA Schools in 2010 and now works between Nairobi and London. In his paintings, Armitage reflects on his experiences in Kenya and on current events, while drawing on contemporary East African art and European art history. Bridging artistic traditions, he looks towards the work of Jak Katarikawe, Meek Gichugu and Chelenge van Rampelberg as well as Titian, Francisco de Goya and Paul Gauguin. In his rich and multi-layered narrative paintings, Armitage questions social norms, religious ideology, politics and cultural clichés. The exhibition will include 15 of the artist’s recent large-scale works, alongside a selection of around 35 works by East African artists chosen by Armitage.
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David Hockney: The Arrival of Spring, Normandy, 2020
The Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries
In March 2021, the Royal Academy of Arts will present David Hockney: The Arrival of Spring, Normandy, 2020 comprising a new body of work created by David Hockney RA during a period of intense activity at his home in Normandy, charting the unfolding and progression of spring. The period in which these works were made coincided with the beginning of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, where Hockney, along with the rest of Europe and much of the world, was in a state of lockdown. Faced with an unprecedented and perplexing period, Hockney’s focus on the emergence of spring instead celebrates the natural world and urges people, as he does himself in one of his frequently used phrases, to ‘love life’. This will be the first time the works will be exhibited, opening exactly a year after the works were made.
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Jock McFadyen RA: Tourist without a Guidebook
The Weston Rooms
In February 2021, the Royal Academy of Arts will present Jock McFadyen RA: Tourist without a Guidebook, a free display that will be held in The Weston Rooms in Burlington House. The exhibition will explore McFadyen’s ongoing interest in the changing urban landscape and will focus on works depicting East London, where he has lived and worked for the past 40 years. Around 20 of McFadyen’s works will be on display, covering a period from the early 1990s to the present.
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Tracey Emin / Edvard Munch: The Loneliness of the Soul
The Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries
The Royal Academy of Arts will present a landmark exhibition bringing together for the first time the work of acclaimed British artist Tracey Emin RA (b.1963) and the Norwegian Expressionist Edvard Munch (1863-1944), two internationally renowned artists born 100 years apart. Long fascinated and inspired by Edvard Munch’s work, Tracey Emin will choose a selection of his masterpieces to accompany her own works.
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