Tag: Royal Academy of Arts
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Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism
The RA turns over its grand halls to an erudite, even academic look at half a century of Brazilian painting. There are some interesting finds amid the abundance
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David Remfry – interview: ‘It’s unprecedented that there were no arguments whatsoever this year’
At 80 years old, David Remfry was just coming to terms with the opportunity to co-ordinate the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition having passed him by. Then he got a phone call from the President …
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Making Modernism: Paula Modersohn-Becker, Käthe Kollwitz, Gabriele Münter and Marianne Werefkin
This is a brilliant exposition of these four painters, who were working in Germany at the start of the 20th century, as they provide a female, and often astonishingly intimate, slant on motherhood, friendship, and city and rural life
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William Kentridge
The brutalities of daily life under apartheid in South Africa are exposed in this major exhibition spanning 40 years of Kentridge’s work. But it is his films that leave the most lasting impression
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Milton Avery: American Colourist
In the first comprehensive exhibition of Avery in Europe, the RA brings together more than 70 works from the 1910s to the 1960s, showing how he influenced artists such as Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman – and, in turn, learned…
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Whistler’s Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan
This show explores how Whistler’s work was shaped by the Irish beauty who became his model, muse and lover
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Francis Bacon: Man and Beast
The raw power of the works in this show, in which we see Bacon’s fascination with animals and with the animalistic side of humankind, will stay with you long after you leave
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Summer Exhibition 2021
Yinka Shonibare has transformed this annual event into a paean to diversity, bringing work from the invisible and marginalised alongside that of amateur artists and academicians
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Rebecca Salter – interview: ‘I believe that art thrives in a crisis and this can be a cause for hope’
The first female president of the Royal Academy talks about the impact the pandemic has had on the institution and on her own work, and why Japanese art has had such a major influence for her
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Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2020
For the first time ever, the Summer Exhibition falls in autumn and winter, but the RA’s galleries look much as they do every year
