Currently celebrating its 250th anniversary, the Royal Academy of Arts, which hosts the annual unmissable Summer Exhibition, has been making, debating and showing art since 1768. The RA’s ever expanding campus now includes a new lecture theatre and a link between its Piccadilly and Burlington Gardens galleries for the first time in its history.
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Must-visit cinemas with award-worthy designCreativity leaps the screen at these design-led cinemas, from Busan Cinema Centre’s record-flying roof to The Gem Cinema Jaipur’s art deco allure
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The modernist home of musician Imogen Holst gets Grade II listingThe daughter of the composer Gustav Holst lived here from 1964 until her death, during which time the home served a locus for her own composition work, which included assisting Benjamin Britten
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This fun and free-spirited photography exhibition offers a chromatic view on the world‘Chromotherapia’ at Villa Medici in Rome, explores how we view colour as a way of therapy, and how it has shaped photography over the last century (until 9 June 2025)
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William Kentridge on failed utopias and transcending borders: ‘art must defend the uncertain’Azu Nwagbogu profiles South African artist William Kentridge, whose show at London's Royal Academy of Arts runs until 11 December 2022
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2022 Royal Academy Architecture Prize recognises Renée GailhoustetThe 2022 Royal Academy Architecture Prize is awarded to Renée Gailhoustet, with the shortlist for the 2022 Royal Academy Dorfman Award revealed at the same time
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Steel yourself for metal guru Antony Gormley’s Royal Academy blockbusterThe British sculptor takes you through a room brambled with steel spindles, inside pitch-black tunnels, before platooning you in a room filled with seawater
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Phyllida Barlow has us on the edge at the Royal AcademyThe British sculptor’s teetering site-specific installations open up new perspectives to the London institution’s architecture
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Head trip: the ’Veronica Scanner’ creates live 3D portraits at the Royal Academy of Arts -
’82 Portraits and 1 Still-life’: David Hockney returns to the RA -
Sonic boom: music duo Carnet de Voyage usher in a new era for the Royal Academy
Progressive music duo Carnet de Voyage usher in a new era for the Royal Academy of Arts
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The white stuff: Edmund de Waal at the Royal AcademyEdmund de Waal's treasured collection of random white artworks opens at the Royal Academy
