Tag: Royal Academy of Arts

  • Anthony Whishaw – Works on Paper

    This accessible and entertaining book by Richard Davey focuses on the 90-year-old artist’s long-forgotten sketches and works on paper and provides new insights into Whishaw’s career

  • Léon Spilliaert

    Ostend’s master draughtsman oscillates between retreat and escape, nocturnal and diurnal, imbuing the everyday with an eeriness

  • Ann Dumas – interview: ‘Every exhibition is fraught with problems and difficulties – but it’s never dull’

    One of the UK’s leading curators, Dumas talks about women in the art world, the trials and triumphs of curatorial life, the differences between working in the US and the UK, and Van Gogh, Cezanne, Degas, and Picasso – the…

  • Eco-Visionaries

    This Royal Academy exhibition addresses a planet in a state of emergency with a range of artists and architects’ speculative responses to our manmade environmental crises

  • Helene Schjerfbeck

    A striking study of the process of ageing and mortality, the central room of this three-gallery exhibition offers a stand-alone journey through this Finnish artist’s life and concerns

  • Phyllida Barlow: Cul-de-Sac

    This exhibition of new work is more pared back than we have come to expect from Barlow. Her aim, she says, is ‘to come back to what is essential’

  • Royal Academy: Art is Part of the Equation

    With its packed walls, vibrant colour and impressive work, the Royal Academy’s first show by artists from its community partner programmes is like a miniature Summer Exhibition

  • A New Spirit Then, A New Spirit Now, 1981-2018

    Revisiting a seminal exhibition from nearly four decades ago, curator Norman Rosenthal presents 15 painters who have stood the test of time and who evidence the continuing relevance of painting as an artistic medium

  • Three Generations: Passing on the Eyton drive

    As they prepare for their first exhibition showing together as a family, Anthony Eyton RA and his sculptor daughter Jane reflect on the enduring influence of Anthony’s mother Phyllis, a painter, who died in a riding accident when he was…

  • Joseph Cornell: Wanderlust

    Wanderlust explores the art of a man who crossed oceans in his imagination and explored fairytale castles in his dreams. Prepare for parrots, pipes and celestial fairies as you step into Joseph Cornell’s magical imaginarium