Articles

RA Magazine Spring 2016

Paul Winstanley, Art School 35 (detail)

Opinion

< 7 years ago

Watch these spaces: the future of art schools

As Britain’s art schools experience an era of radical change, what do students stand to gain and lose? Anna Coatman explores the past, present and future of art education.
Giorgione, La Vecchia (detail)

RA Exhibitions

< 7 years ago

The enigma of Giorgione

Giorgione left few clues to his life, yet he was at the heart of a creative explosion in 16th-century Venetian painting that changed the course of European art. Ali Smith brings to life the fusion of originality and poetry in his work.
Giovanni Cariani, Saint Agatha (detail)

RA Exhibitions

< 7 years ago

Going for gold: Venice in the 16th century

The first decade of the 16th century saw Venice become a creative cauldron, as a glittering array of painters put the city on the cusp of an artistic golden age. Sarah Dunant celebrates some of the most influential figures.
Sandro Botticelli, Pallas and the Centaur (detail)

RA Recommends

< 7 years ago

Botticelli: A touch of the divine

Botticelli was a huge success, then virtually forgotten before his resurrection by the Pre-Raphaelites, reveals Simon Wilson ahead of a lavish V&A show.
Attribution: does it matter?

Opinion

7 years ago

Debate: should we care about attribution?

If we can’t tell by looking at a work, does it matter who painted it? Or does knowing the authorship increase our understanding? An artist and an art historian go head to head. Pick your side and vote below.
Yinka Shonibare RA in his studio

Artists

7 years ago

In the studio with Yinka Shonibare RA

As Yinka Shonibare RA prepares to wrap the Academy’s Burlington Gardens façade in his bold designs, Fiona Maddocks visits the sculptor at his warehouse studio in east London.
Hilma af Klint, Group IV, No. 3, The Ten Largest, Youth

RA Recommends

7 years ago

Hilma af Klint: The spirit moved her

The Swedish painter Hilma af Klint was making abstract art before Kandinsky, but her spiritualist methods have undermined her standing in art history. Now her work is being reassessed at the Serpentine Galleries.
Eugène Delacroix, Christ on the Sea of Galilee

RA Recommends

7 years ago

Delacroix: Revolutionary fervour

As an exhibition opens on Delacroix and his legacy, Martin Oldham draws out three qualities that mark him as a modern artist.
Gabriella Boyd's illustrations (composite) for Interpreting Dreams

RA Recommends

7 years ago

Gabriella Boyd: illustrating dreams, as interpreted by Freud

How do you illustrate a dream – or harder still, Freud’s interpretation of it? RA Schools student Gabriella Boyd has done just that in a new edition of Interpreting Dreams by the Folio Society.
Still from 'Vertigo Sea', 2015, by John Akomfrah

Opinion

7 years ago

Re-viewing the past: three new shows of video art

RA Magazine takes a look at three shows of video art that reinvent the documentary form.