Born on the French Riviera, Yves Klein grew up surrounded by the intense blue of the Mediterranean sea and sky. He got the ...

For a moment, I thought I’d come up with the perfect argument against the use of phones at exhibitions. Suppose that instead of being face to face with a masterpiece – or lens to face, rather – you ...

Modern English Art: reproductions by the collotype process of some of the pictures in the loan exhibition held in the art gallery of the Corporation of London, at the Guildhall, 1895 / with ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...