The Royal Academy of Arts, located in the heart of London, is a place where art is made, exhibited and debated.

Representing Britain at this year's Venice Biennale, Lubaina Himid RA explores what it means to belong in a country that maybe doesn't want you there.

A 17th-century trailblazer rediscovered. Active in Brussels in the middle of the 17th century, Michaelina Wautier challenged the limits imposed on female artists at the time by working on an unusually ...

Rose Wylie loves how a film can capture the same scene from multiple perspectives, certain shots from striking films are seared into her memory and often re-materialise in paintings. One director in ...

An inquiry concerning the invention of printing : in which the systems of Meerman, Heinecken, Santander, and Koning are reviewed : including also notices of the early use of wood-engraving in Europe, ...

Experience the epic style of Kerry James Marshall. Don't miss out on America’s biggest artist, in London for one season only.

One of the world’s most influential living painters, Marshall is a virtuoso chronicler of Black American life – here are five things you need to know about the artist. Kerry James Marshall first ...

“Dead matter still has a lot of agency, a lot of presence.” Take a look around Nicola Turner’s studio in Bath and watch her build her dramatic sculpture created from tentacles of horsehair and sheep ...

Meet the artists who defined Ukraine’s culture at the start of the 20th century before you visit our latest exhibition ‘In the Eye of the Storm’. The start of the 20th century was a period of ...

Flaming June is one of the most reproduced images in Victorian painting. What makes an artwork seize the public imagination in ways that give it a life far larger than its own? From the Spring 2024 ...

Discover the collages of Kenneth Halliwell and Joe Orton researched through performance by Alex Margo Arden. Rock Paper Scissors applies methods of performance, reproduction, deviance and reenactment ...

How do you put on a show of more than 1,500 works across 3,000 square metres for more than 200,000 visitors? By following an eccentric format perfected over 255 years – with a few contemporary tweaks, ...