Ballads and poems: or A rhyming succession of rhyming digression / Sir Alfred Munnings, Past President of the Royal Academy - London: 1957 ...

Leighton, Millais and William Morris : a lecture delivered to the students of the Royal Academy / by Sir William Blake Richmond, Professor of Painting at the Royal Academy of Arts - London ; New York: ...

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 ...

Cornelia Parker RA brings her PsychoBarn installation to London and the Neoclassical surrounds of our Annenberg Courtyard. Cornelia Parker's Transitional Object (PsychoBarn) was first exhibited on the ...

An introduction to Lucian Freud's painting technique Learn about Lucian Freud's painting techniques in this video, produced in collaboration with Phaidon. We take a close-up look at some of the works ...

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 ...

Originally released in cinemas, this 'Exhibition on Screen' film takes us back to our landmark exhibition, 'Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse', examining the role gardens played in 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 ...

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.

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 RA started out with two female Academicians, then took over a century to elect any more. As we celebrate our 250th anniversary, we take a look back at the women who fought the odds to be a part of ...

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 ...