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Bring a splash of colour to your grey winter day. Opening soon, Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism.Find out more abo...
24/01/2025

Bring a splash of colour to your grey winter day. Opening soon, Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism.

Find out more about this stunning exhibition https://roy.ac/bj1mtfi5

Drawing challenge time ✏️Draw us a face using letters of the alphabet.Tell us how you got on ⬇️
23/01/2025

Drawing challenge time ✏️

Draw us a face using letters of the alphabet.

Tell us how you got on ⬇️

Modernism was an international art movement. Who's your favourite modernist artist?If you want to know more about modern...
22/01/2025

Modernism was an international art movement. Who's your favourite modernist artist?

If you want to know more about modernism in Brazil and India, check out our upcoming exhibitions: https://roy.ac/k4isn3f1

From Copacabana beach to footballing legend, Pele, Brazil’s modern culture has made a lasting mark on the world.Ahead of...
21/01/2025

From Copacabana beach to footballing legend, Pele, Brazil’s modern culture has made a lasting mark on the world.

Ahead of our upcoming show on Brazilian modernism, we’ve picked just a few of our favourite cultural icons from 20th-century Brazil.

Disagree? Tell us what we should have included.

17/01/2025

"Your brain is a muscle, it needs exercising"

We caught up with Ryan Gander RA to find out how creativity is good for the mind.

How are you going to exercise your imagination in 2025?

Hands up who wants another drawing challenge? 🙌 This week, we want you to draw your opposite hand WITH your opposite han...
16/01/2025

Hands up who wants another drawing challenge? 🙌

This week, we want you to draw your opposite hand WITH your opposite hand.

Let us know how you get on ⬇️

Grayson Perry created this witty manifesto in 2014, answering some of art’s biggest issues, such as: Can anything be art...
14/01/2025

Grayson Perry created this witty manifesto in 2014, answering some of art’s biggest issues, such as: Can anything be art? Who decides whether art is good or bad?

What would you put in your art manifesto?

11/01/2025

Antony Gormley RA takes us on a quick tour of his sketchbook, or workbook as he calls it. Has he inspired you to start a sketchbook too? ✍️

Daydreaming about holidays? What's your favourite arty destination? 🌎View of Barcelona from Park Güell, designed by Anto...
10/01/2025

Daydreaming about holidays? What's your favourite arty destination? 🌎

View of Barcelona from Park Güell, designed by Antoni Gaudí © Jan Wlodarczyk / Alamy Stock Photo

Time for a drawing challenge ✏️ Draw a bird by tracing around a coin.Use the shape of the coin to capture the different ...
09/01/2025

Time for a drawing challenge ✏️

Draw a bird by tracing around a coin.
Use the shape of the coin to capture the different curves which make up the bird.

Let us know us how you get on ⬇️

07/01/2025

🚨 Submissions are now open for the 2025 Summer Exhibition!

This year, the co-ordinator is Farshid Moussavi RA and she has chosen Dialogues as her theme.

Submissions close on 11 February, or sooner if the cap of 18,000 entries has been reached.

If you would like a chance to see your work displayed in the world’s largest open-submission exhibition go to our website to find out more https://roy.ac/pyodozve

📣 Calling all young artists 📣Submissions for the 2025 Young Artists’ Summer Show are now open!It’s free to enter, and ch...
06/01/2025

📣 Calling all young artists 📣

Submissions for the 2025 Young Artists’ Summer Show are now open!

It’s free to enter, and chosen works will be exhibited online and onsite at the RA this summer. To enter you need to be aged 4-18 and studying in the UK. All artworks will be judged by a panel of passionate artists and art professionals.

Don't miss this exciting opportunity – apply by 5 March:

The Young Artists' Summer Show is an open submission exhibition, taking place both online and on-site at the Royal Academy, that recognises talented young artists at primary and secondary school level.

03/01/2025

Last chance to see Flaming June at the RA 🧡

Frederic, Lord Leighton’s Victorian masterpiece leaves the RA on 12 January.

Visit her in our free Collection Gallery before it’s too late.

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Frederic, Lord Leighton PRA, 'Flaming June', c. 1895. Oil on canvas, 119.1 x 119.1 cm. Museo de Arte de Ponce. Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc.

Dates for your diary in 2025, a year of fantastic art at the RA.🔹 'Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism', 28 January -...
02/01/2025

Dates for your diary in 2025, a year of fantastic art at the RA.

🔹 'Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism', 28 January - 21 April 2025
🔸 'Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo', 21 March - 29 June 2025
🔹 'Summer Exhibition', 17 June - 17 August 2025
🔸 'Kiefer / Van Gogh', 28 June - 26 October 2025
🔹 'Kerry James Marshall: The Histories', 20 September 2025 - 18 January 2026
🔸 'A Story of South Asian Art: Mrinalini Mukherjee and Her Circle', 24 October 2025 - 25 January 2026

What are you looking forward to?

From bananas to Banksy, Taylor Swift to the Turner Prize, it's been a busy 12 months in the art world.It's time to put y...
27/12/2024

From bananas to Banksy, Taylor Swift to the Turner Prize, it's been a busy 12 months in the art world.

It's time to put your knowledge to the test with our great art quiz of the year!

From bananas to Banksy, Taylor Swift to the Turner Prize, it's time for our annual art quiz of the year! Test your knowledge of art-world happenings in 2024.

25/12/2024

Merry Christmas from the Burlington House choir 🎄

Santa Claus is coming to town 🛷❄️This fantastic festive illustration was created by Arthur Rackham for the book 'The nig...
24/12/2024

Santa Claus is coming to town 🛷❄️

This fantastic festive illustration was created by Arthur Rackham for the book 'The night before Christmas' by Clement C. Moore.

Arthur Rackham, 'Santa and Sleigh.', 1931. Black silhouette illustration. 215 mm x 143 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.

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