RA Schools students Katrina Cowling, Francisca Pinto and Anaï Salem set a landscape within the Weston Studio.
The first time Kerry James Marshall ever boarded a plane was for a Picasso exhibition at the MoMA. He tells us how that experience changed his life.
Highlights from Peggy Guggenheim’s groundbreaking London exhibitions return to London. It’s January 1938. American collector and patron of the arts Peggy Guggenheim has just opened her first gallery ...
Léon Spilliaert (1881–1946) was born in the coastal town of Ostend. He moved to Brussels at the age of 20, and would live and work between the two cities for the rest of his life. Self-taught, he ...
As our 'From Life' exhibition explores the past, present and future of representing bodies in art, we look back at the Royal Academy's 250-year tradition of drawing nude models. Charles West Cope RA’s ...
Grant Wood image American Gothic, 1930 Cover of 'Out' magazine, Feb-March 1994 image 'A real piece of work comes to London', by Adams cartoons. Published in The Telegraph, 22 February 2017. image ...
Have a go at making your own paint with eggs, make-up, spices and chalk. Some materials like chalk might need to be ground into a powder by using a mortar and pestle ...
See inside ‘Tracey Emin / Edvard Munch: The Loneliness of the Soul’ Tracey Emin has long had a fascination with the Norwegian Expressionist and painter of The Scream, Edvard Munch: in her words, “I’ve ...
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 ...
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 ...
See inside Picasso and Paper Picasso didn’t just draw on paper – he tore it, burnt it, and made it three-dimensional. From studies for Guernica to a 4.8-metre-wide collage, this exhibition brings ...
With Marina Abramović taking over the Main Galleries at the RA, we look at some other artists who have shaped the history of performance art. In 1951, German photographer Hans Namuth, after spending ...