Royal Academy of Arts
WEBOpening times. Monday: closed. Tuesday–Sunday: 10am–6pm. Friday: 10am–9pm. Burlington House entrance. Piccadilly, W1J 0BD. Burlington Gardens entrance. 6 Burlington Gardens, W1S 3ET. Located in the heart of London, the RA is a place where art is made, exhibited and debated.
Exhibitions & Events - Royal Academy of Arts
WEBOpen House Festival at the RA. 21 September 2024. The Royal Academy of Arts, located in the heart of London, is a place where art is made, exhibited and debated.
Art and artists - Royal Academy of Arts
WEBOur Collection spans 250 years of British art, from Constable and Turner to Hockney and Emin. It now contains about 935 paintings, 350 sculptures, 700 plaster casts, 25,000 prints and drawings and 5,000 historic photographs. Some were acquired as teaching materials for the RA Schools, or simply to inspire the next generation of artists.
David Hockney | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts
WEBDavid Hockney studied at Bradford School of Art from 1953 to 1957 and the Royal College of Art from 1959 until 1962. He was awarded the Royal College of Art gold medal in 1962 in recognition of his mastery as a draughtsman and his innovative paintings. His early work was stylistically diverse, combining graffiti-like images with quotations from ...
Ai Weiwei: 13 works to know | Royal Academy of Arts
WEBAi Weiwei has worked in everything from paint to readymades. As our landmark exhibition examines work from 1993 up to the present day, we take a look at some of the key works to know from across Ai's career. In Ai Weiwei’s work, there is no division between art and politics. Throughout his career, the artist has never shied away from ...
The life-drawing class you can take from home - Royal Academy …
WEBFeb 13, 2018 · It's a free online life drawing class you can take from anywhere! Life drawing is the artistic tradition of drawing the human body from a live model – something that the likes of Turner and Constable would have studied at the Royal Academy, and which still takes part in our Life Room today. Life drawing can be an important way for artists to ...
Eileen Gray: an architect and designer you should know
WEBPublished on 2 March 2021. A designer of decorative furniture and Modernist architecture, Eileen Gray found recognition aged 94. Here's our guide to the life of this overlooked master, and her infamous seaside villa, E-1027. It's a story as old as art history – a woman, ingenious and indefatigable, produces groundbreaking work while eluding ...
Marina Abramović - Royal Academy of Arts
WEBSep 23, 2023 · Marina Abramović. An art world icon and a performance art pioneer – Marina Abramović has captivated audiences by pushing the limits of her body and mind, for the past 50 years. 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 ...
About the RA - Royal Academy of Arts
WEBThe RA was founded in 1768 by a group of 40 artists and architects who became the first Royal Academicians. The first president was Sir Joshua Reynolds, whose statue now stands outside Burlington House. Over the past 250 years, we've moved house several times, elected hundreds of new RAs and even survived the Blitz – all while continuing to ...
Jenny Saville | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts
WEBJenny Saville is probably best known for her large scale oil paintings of fleshy, obese female figures. Saville’s work invokes a deep fascination in the palpability of flesh, extremities of anatomy, and the grotesque combined with a masterly and yet intuitive instinct for the handling of paint. She graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1992 ...