The Royal Academy of Arts, located in the heart of London, is a place where art is made, exhibited and debated.
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September Update
Summer and its exhibition might be gone but the RA is not forgotten. So much more of the building is now freely accessible with mini displays and cafes open to the public. We went between paying exhibs and it was lovely to ezplore and just freely wander, , with helpful staff as guides if need be. So much freed uo reconfigured space! A happierr, more open building.
July
It's that time of year again. Loving the fact this year's RA Summer Exhibition is curated by the one and only completely colourful Grayson Perry.
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Watch this short film to get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the forthcoming in-house production of Brian Friel’s “Lovers- Winners” playing here at the ICC on Fri 23, Sat 24, February! Here you will see actors William Foote (playing Joe), and Lauren McGarvey, (playing Mag) in the full throttle of rehearsals! Actor Margaret Moore and Director Rosalind Scanlon also give us their thoughts on Brian Friel’s heart touching play! Make sure you get your tickets fast for this magical production!
Textiles are vital to our lives. We are swaddled in them when we’re born, we wrap our bodies in them every day, and we’re shrouded in them when we die.
El Anatsui has created a monumental new artwork for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall El Anatsui’s Behind the Red Moon is a monumental sculptural installation made of thousands of metal bottle tops and fragments.
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El Anatsui’s Behind the Red Moon is a monumental sculptural installation made of thousands of metal bottle tops and fragments. Crumpling, crushing, and stitching them into different compositions, large panels are pieced together to form massive abstract fields of colour, shape and line. The commission builds on Anatsui’s interest in histories of encounter and the migration of goods and people during the transatlantic slave trade. Sourced in Nigeria, the liquor bottle tops used in this commission form part of a present-day industry built on colonial trade routes.
Behind the Red Moon is staged as an artwork in three acts. Visitors are invited to embark on a journey of movement and interaction through the hangings, a dance between bodies and sculptures.
Viewing the hangings from afar, a landscape of symbols is revealed: the moon, the sail, the wave, the earth, and the wall. Up close, the bottle tops’ logos speak to the material’s social lives as commodities of a global industry built on colonial trade routes. Together, the past and present of Africa and Europe merge into sculptural forms that hang in the air and appear to float across the space. The hangings embody Anatsui’s idea of the ‘non-fixed form’, and are part of his highly experimental approach to sculpture.
Anatsui engages with the poetic possibilities of his materials. ‘Each material has its properties, physical and even spiritual,’ he explains. Behind the Red Moon explores elemental forces interwoven with human histories of power, oppression, dispersion and survival.
This tender portrait by the leading court artist Sir Godfrey Kneller is the earliest known painting of a mother breastfeeding her child in British and Irish portraiture. The intense naturalism of this portrait advances contemporary understanding of the changing role of motherhood throughout the early modern period. To all present researchers, no immediately comparable work of portraiture is known.
On view at Philip Mould & Company's booth at Frieze Masters 2023 (F7)
Godfrey Kneller Portrait of Lady Mary Boyle nursing her son Charles 1690 Oil on canvas 32 ½ x 25 ¾ in. (82.5 x 65.4 cm)
This group show of artistic responses to the climate emergency explores themes of care, hope, interdependence, emotional and spiritual connection, and activism.
Celebrate the National Portrait Gallery's rebirth with McCartney, Emin, Fobert and more in a series of lively events this summer at First Look Festival.
“Celebrated Japanese choreographer Rihoko Sato presents her solo UK Premiere – a hypnotic dance fusing poetry and song unfolding in the heart of nocturnal forest. A bewitching experience illuminated by moonlight, Sato combines voice, sound and movement to present a breathtaking work exploring the beauty and brutality of nature. Rihoko Sato returns to The Coronet for the third time following her acclaimed collaborations with internationally renowned dancer and choreographer Saburo Teshigawara in The Idiot and Tristan and Isolde.‘
Exhibition dates: 6 January – 5 February 2023 Open to the public: Tuesday – Saturday 11.00 – 18.00 and Sunday 12.00 – 17.00 The Fitzrovia Chapel is proud t
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he Ward – Revisited Exhibition dates: 6 January – 5 February 2023 Open to the public: Tuesday – Saturday 11.00 – 18.00 and Sunday 12.00 – 17.00
“The Fitzrovia Chapel is proud to announce its forthcoming exhibition, The Ward – Revisited by Gideon Mendel. In 1993, Gideon spent a number of weeks photographing the Broderip and Charles Bell wards at the Middlesex Hospital. The Broderip was the first dedicated AIDS ward in London, and was opened in 1987 by Princess Diana. Twelve of these poignant black and white images were exhibited as The Ward at the chapel in 2017, the location of the Fitzrovia Chapel taking on a special resonance as the chapel is today the only remaining building of the Middlesex. The Ward – Revisited exhibition will comprise a large-screen video installation of many more and previously unseen images with a specially composed soundtrack, as well as a new short film with interviews of people who appear in the original photographs. This new exhibition also ties in with Terence Higgins Trust’s 40th anniversary, the photographs for TheWard being originally commissioned as part of their 10th anniversary in 1993.”
« Back to the News Feed Full Programme for VAULT Festival 2023 announced! Tickets on sale now! Tuesday 22 November, 2022 We’re thrilled to announce that VAULT Festival will be back in 2023 from Tuesday 24th January to Sunday 19th March with an unmissable programme of live performance, featuring...
With over 140 works, this exhibition serves as the most comprehensive survey of the photographer's work and shows the photographer's continued efforts to value and document the lives of those affected by the economic shifts in the North of England, throughout the 1970s and 80s.
The iconic, controversial, ground-breaking and most Tony Nominated play of all time comes to London. Fisayo Akinade, James Cusati-Moyer, Kit Harington, Aaron Heffernan, Chalia La Tour, Annie McNamara, Irene Sofia Lucio and Olivia Washington star in Jeremy O.Harris’s extraordinary play.
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There will be some Black Out nights during the run .
Set in Paris in 1898, Will Govan plays an exiled Oscar Wilde looking back on his extraordinarily colourful life and ruminating on love, fame, family and misfortune with his infamous wit and irreverence, in this hilarious but ultimately tragic story of a life written by Neil Titley
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Coming to Pentameters in Hampstead , April 2024 as part of a London and IreLand tour .
A celebration of the varied landscape of contemporary African photography today Bringing together a group of artists from different generations, this exhibition will address how photography, film, audio, and more have been used to reimagine Africa’s diverse cultures and historical...
Lina Ghotmeh speaks about her design for the 2023 Serpentine Pavilion.
Inspired by her Mediterranean heritage and lively discussions around the table over current affairs, politics, personal lives, and dreams, the Pavilion is titled 'À table' – a French call to sit together at the table to share a meal and enter into dialogue.
Visit 'À table', Serpentine Pavilion 2023 from 9 June - 29 October 2023
From strolls around Greenwich Park through to treks over Hampstead Heath, we've rounded up our favourite winter walks in London, along with the best pubs to end at.
Join us for a candlelit evening to celebrate all things literary with pop-up poetry readings, book displays, and more. Sir John Soane was an avid book collector and had a vast personal collection of works which he kept at his home and studio in Lincoln Inn Fields. Our Archivist and Head of Library Services will present a display of some of Soane’s favourite books, rarely on show to the public, in the Museum's elegant Drawing Rooms.
London has gained another public roof terrace, but this one is right in the centre of London, offering some pretty impressive views from the 9th floor space.
He started with a giant snowball, then took a walk in a field that ended up inventing a new form of art. Now 77, Long talks about being being expelled from art college, his hiking tips, and the joys of staying close to home
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