Tag: Royal Academy of Arts

Rodin

Rodin Royal Academy of Arts, London 23 September 2006-1 January 2007
Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution 1760-1830

The Royal Academy of Arts is currently hosting Citizens and Kings: Portraiture in the Age of Revolution. However, despite the British Museum’s own superb and scholarly comprehensive exhibition entitled Enlightenment: Discovering the World in the Eighteenth Century (2003), there seems…
London Fashion Week: Sympathy for the Devil

London Fashion Week coincided very closely with the launch of ‘The Devil Wears Prada’, starring Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt, and was surrounded in a mist of infamy concerning size zero models – questioning whether Nancy Regan was…
Pallant House

In August, this website featured an assessment of the high quality of the collections at Pallant House, Chichester. As promised in that article, here follows a more detailed appraisal of the new architecture of Pallant House itself. This building is…
The John Bellany Odyssey – paintings from Italy, China and the Tsunami

Mitchell Library, Glasgow 4 June-10 September 2005
Matisse, His Art and His Textiles. The Fabric of Dreams

Royal Academy of Arts, London 5 March – 30 May 2005
Pre-Raphaelite and other Masters: the Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection

20 September-12 December 2003, Main Galleries, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Aztecs at the Royal Academy

Royal Academy, London. Until 11 April 2003. Martin-Gropius-Bar, Berlin, 17 May – 10 August 2003. Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn, 26 September 2003 – 11 January 2004.
Frank Auerbach

Royal Academy of Arts, London, through 12 December.
Frank Auerbach: Paintings and Drawings 1954-2001

The paintings on show at the RA have an effect that it would have been impossible to anticipate; the grand space of the galleries and the juxtaposition of the paintings achieve resonance which would have been impossible in smaller spaces.…