Find out more about how the pioneer of Post-Impressionism has inspired the subjects and techniques of Kiefer’s monumental paintings and sculptures. A few months after turning 18, Kiefer embarked on an ...

Created on their return from an Antarctic expedition, these life jackets symbolise survival, whether it’s physical, material, or spiritual. Taking inspiration from a Victorian book of cyanotypes ...

The value of art in our schools is immeasurable. Urgently, we need to bring it back. Yes, times are hard and budgets are tight. But that’s not why art is drying up in our schools. The truth is more ...

Tracey Emin RA has won the 2024 Charles Wollaston Award for the "most distinguished work" in the Summer Exhibition. Each year we present prizes for outstanding works in the Summer Exhibition. Over £80 ...

“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 ...

Discover the next generation of architects, designers and curators in this changing display in the McAulay Gallery. The Architecture Window is a space for new voices in architecture at the heart 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 ...

Shane de Blacam’s former student, critic Shane O’Toole, celebrates the architect’s thoughtful transformation of public places across his home country of Ireland. Half a century has slipped by since my ...

Surreal, macabre, and captivating – William Kentridge’s early drawings immediately take you into a distinctive world. In this charcoal triptych, in a crowded room filled with men in evening-wear, a ...

The Berlin-based artist’s profound compassion and expressive depictions of those suffering were rooted in first-hand experience. From the Autumn 2022 issue of RA Magazine, issued quarterly to Friends ...

From the Autumn 2022 issue of RA Magazine, issued quarterly to Friends of the RA. Francesca Wade is the author of Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars (Faber). She is ...