Originally released in cinemas, this 'Exhibition on Screen' film takes us back to two of our landmark exhibitions by the iconic British artist, David Hockney RA. Sit back and enjoy, as we revisit 2012 ...

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 ...

See inside the Summer Exhibition 2020 252 years ago, a group of artists made it their mission to form an annual exhibition to support artists and architects, by showcasing art of the moment to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the extraordinary 13 metre-wide Waterloo cartoon goes on display at the RA, our curator of works on paper offers a quick introduction to the technique used by the likes of Maclise and Raphael.

In this long-read, performance art pioneer Marina Abramović speaks to Sinéad Gleeson from her New York home, ahead of her long-awaited show. Born in Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia in 1946, Marina ...

As we unite more than 50 of Lucian Freud’s self-portraits for the first time ever, here’s a handy guide to get to know the man whose painted, printed and drawn figure is in our galleries this autumn.

Ai 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 ...

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 ...

Joseph Cornell created curious worlds of long ago and far away in his boxes of found objects. We examine the work of this American trailblazer ahead of his RA exhibition. From the Summer 2015 issue of ...

Encaustic is an ancient painting method in which wax and pigment are fused onto a surface with heat. Watch a demonstration of this versatile technique by Royal Academician Terry Setch, recorded in his ...