Summer Exhibition 2025 - Royal Academy of Arts
Held every year without interruption since 1769, the Summer Exhibition showcases a diverse array of contemporary works, including prints, paintings, films, photography, sculpture, and architectural works.
"I only do something if I’m afraid of it, because that’s the whole ...
Aug 24, 2023 · Abramović’s practice commits to taking up space, to placing her body in galleries and rooms and eschewing privacy and comfort: in the raised rooms of The House With The Ocean View (2002) – which will be reperformed in the RA exhibition – where she lived for 12 days and the ladders offering escape had knives for steps; in the airless heat of a Venetian basement scrubbing animal bones and ...
Royal Academy of Arts
Feb 6, 2010 · The Royal Academy of Arts, located in the heart of London, is a place where art is made, exhibited and debated.
Introducing our 2024 exhibitions | Royal Academy of Arts
May 17, 2023 · Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s. 29 June – 13 October. A bold period of artistic experimentation flourished in Ukraine between 1900 and 1930, against a backdrop of political turmoil, collapsing empires and the fight for independence.
Start here: Florence c. 1504 - Royal Academy of Arts
Three artists in Florence . At the turn of the 16th century, three titans of the Italian Renaissance were in Florence at the same time. Michelangelo had completed his iconic, David; Leonardo had recently returned to his native Florence and was working on a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo, better known as the Mona Lisa; and Raphael, in his early twenties and hungry for success, came to …
Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael | Royal Academy of Arts
May 18, 2023 · At the turn of the 16th century, three titans of the Italian Renaissance – Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael – briefly crossed paths, competing for the attention of the most powerful patrons in Republican Florence.
13 things to know about Francis Bacon | Royal Academy of Arts
Feb 14, 2022 · 2. He revelled in chaos . Bacon’s Reece Mews studio (since relocated to Dublin) is the manifestation of chaos. By the time he died, his studio floor was feet-deep in thousands of photographs and magazines – a mix of high and low cultural images, historic paintings, scientific drawings and photographs as well as reproductions of …
Start here: Michael Craig-Martin | Royal Academy of Arts
Finding objects. After the minimalism of An Oak Tree Craig-Martin began looking for new directions to take his work. He continued to experiment with readymade objects, producing a series of works made using closed Venetian blinds and he made simplified drawings of everyday objects using neon lights.
Marina Abramović - Royal Academy of Arts
Sep 23, 2023 · Marina Abramović Hon RA has earned worldwide acclaim as a performance artist. She has consistently tested the limits of her own physical and mental endurance in her work, subjecting herself to exhaustion, pain and even the possibility of death.
10 works to know by William Kentridge | Royal Academy of Arts
Oct 17, 2022 · 4. Black Box / Chambre Noire . Set inside a miniature wooden theatre run by motors and wheels – something between a puppet show and a mechanical theatre – Black Box / Chambre Noire solidified Kentridge’s interest in entwining opera, art, theatre and film within immersive, ambitious productions. The work examines Germany’s colonial force and genocide in South West Africa (now Namibia ...