Join us for the highlight of London's social calendar and be the first to buy art from the Summer Exhibition. Be the first to view and buy works at the world-famous Summer Exhibition and enjoy a ...

Located in the heart of London, the RA is a place where art is made, exhibited and debated.

Drop in on the first Friday night of the month for an evening of free drawing. Pick up a pencil and get creative at this free drawing evening, inspired by our Astonishing Things: The Drawings of ...

Explore art works, paint-smeared palettes, scribbled letters and more... Artists and architects have run the RA for 250 years. Our Collection is a record of them.

Have a go at making your own paint with eggs, make-up, spices and chalk. Have you ever eaten a runny egg for breakfast, then struggled to scrub the plate clean? Egg yolks are fast-drying and a strong ...

Explore the first ever winter Summer Exhibition like never before and discover a myriad of works by household names and emerging artists inside this virtual tour. 252 years ago, a group of artists ...

Ai Weiwei has worked in everything from paint to readymades. As our landmark exhibition examines work from 1993 up to the present day, we take a look at some of the key works to know from across Ai's ...

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 ...

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 ...

A sleeping baby greeted visitors to the RA in 2019, lying on the bare flagstones and dwarfed by the surrounding Annenberg Courtyard. The vulnerability of Antony Gormley's Iron Baby struck a ...

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 ...