Royal Academy of Arts
The latest news and comment on the Royal Academy of Arts
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Design and desires: how Vanessa Bell put the bloom in BloomsburyShe was best known as a member of the Bloomsbury group and sister of Virginia Woolf – but will the first major show of her artwork change her reputation?
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Intrigue: James Ensor by Luc Tuymans review – exquisite turbulenceThere is far more to Belgian misfit James Ensor than masks and skeletons, as this exemplary show reveals
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Abstract Expressionism review – a colossal eventIt’s a thrill to see the wildly beautiful art of Pollock, Rothko, De Kooning et al up close. Though you can have too much of a good thing…
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Ron Arad's twisting aluminium sculpture unveiled at St PancrasGiant work is intended to have calming effect on the millions of passengers who pass through London station each year
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David Hockney RA: 82 Portraits and 1 Still-life review – are you sitting colourfully?Though Hockney’s mastery and energy are never in doubt, his show of portraits sees likeness and personality often sacrificed to surface detail
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Double vision: the artist duos who think as oneBrothers, sisters, lovers, others ... London’s Royal Academy celebrates the work of artist duos in its summer exhibition. From Jake and Dinos Chapman to the Wilson twins, four twosomes reveal how they work – and stay – together
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David Hockney shines the spotlight on the curator of his Royal Academy showEdith Devaney, one of 82 sitters painted by the artist over two-and-a-half years, says the resulting portrait came as a revelation: ‘He has got me …’
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The RA has real cheek to present itself as a champion of the new with its Shonibare awning when it has tried so hard for centuries to fetter British artists
Radical or retrogade? Yinka Shonibare can't redeem the Royal Academy
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Ditch tobacco sponsors, health experts warn cultural institutions1,000 experts sign open letter to London’s leading cultural bodies, including British Museum and Royal Academy, over ‘morally unacceptable’ sponsorship
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Jackson Pollock paintings to be united in London showRoyal Academy of Arts brings together paintings of abstract expressionism’s leading light, including works lent by Australian and US galleries
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In the Age of Giorgione review: in pursuit of an elusive geniusAn exemplary exhibition brings us closer to understanding the most enigmatic and influential painter in the history of art
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Who painted the enigmatic Giustiniani Portrait? You decideExclusive: The Royal Academy will ask public to vote whether Giorgione or Titian created masterpiece at exhibition
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Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse review – ravishing visionsThere is no question whose waterlilies are the stars of the show at the Royal Academy
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Pirates, explorers, empire-makers, slavers: how great works of art tell story of Britain’s pastA series of acclaimed exhibitions is holding a mirror up to UK history, from Celtic invasion to Enlightenment ideas to imperial conquest
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Max Hastings on Brian Sewell: extravagant, brilliant and bankable‘He possessed the gifts of all successful polemicists: conceit, passion, wit, literary elegance and an instinctive suspicion of, and disdain for, power and wealth’
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Charter papers shed light on birth of Royal Academy out of 18th-century feudRediscovered documents of Society of Artists of Great Britain list 112 members, with some illustrious names scratched out after breaking away to set up the RA
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David Hockney portraits to go on show at Royal AcademyPaintings began in 2013 with scores of people asked to sit, but none of them will know if they are immortalised on canvas until exhibition opens next year
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Robin Wade obituaryInnovative museum designer who helped modernise institutions from Ironbridge to the British Museum
Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932 review – when anything was possible