No discussion of weaving would be complete without the Academy’s own Grayson Perry RA. Among the works Perry is showcasing is ...

Kerry James Marshall explains why his paintings can contain up to nine different shades of black.

For centuries the body has been a central subject in Western art, depicted in the telling of stories or as a means to explore what it is to be human. In the mid-twentieth century artists such as ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Discover the next generation of architects, designers and curators in this changing display in the McAulay Gallery. The Architecture Window is a space for new voices in architecture at the heart of ...