Articles

RA Magazine Winter 2018

Pocketpark. On the building blocks of a truly lovable and liveable city.

Opinion

4 years ago

What are the building blocks of a liveable (and loveable) city?

As part of RA Architecture Studio’s Invisible Landscapes series, urbanist Rachel Fisher weighs up the myriad ways that social technology can help us build human-centred cities.
Bill Viola, Nantes Triptych

RA Exhibitions

4 years ago

Bill Viola / Michelangelo: scenes from the extremities of life

We asked four writers to respond to key themes in ‘Bill Viola / Michelangelo’. On the subject of birth, art historian Ingrid Rowland reveals how both artists confront the particular and the universal in the cycle of life.
Michelangelo Buonarroti, The Risen Christ (detail)

RA Exhibitions

4 years ago

Bill Viola / Michelangelo: finding the language of emotion

We asked four writers to respond to key themes in ‘Bill Viola / Michelangelo’. On the subject of emotional states, novelist Deborah Levy asks what it means to surrender to our most intense and incoherent feelings.
Bill Viola, Man Searching for Immortality/Woman Searching for Eternity

RA Exhibitions

4 years ago

Bill Viola / Michelangelo: art as a search for meaning

We asked four writers to respond to key themes in ‘Bill Viola / Michelangelo’. On the subject of mortality, the former bishop Richard Holloway writes that art and religion are driven onwards by the fact of our death.
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Archers Shooting at a Herm (detail)

RA Exhibitions

4 years ago

Bill Viola / Michelangelo: expressing the inexpressible

We asked four writers to respond to key themes in ‘Bill Viola / Michelangelo’. On the subject of transcendence, poet and novelist Ben Okri argues that art’s power lies where understanding leaves off, beyond thought and word.
Barbara Rae RA in her studio in Edinburgh

Artists

> 4 years ago

“The sunsets were other-worldly” – artist Barbara Rae RA on her Arctic journeys

RA Magazine’s Sarah Handelman meets Barbara Rae RA in her studio in Edinburgh ahead of her exhibition ‘Barbara Rae: The Northwest Passage’.

Egon Schiele, Seated Female Nude (detail)

Opinion

> 4 years ago

Being a sitter for Egon Schiele

With their direct eye contact and powerful stances, Egon Schiele’s drawings of women were some of the first to recognise female autonomy. But who were the artist’s models and how did their relationships with Schiele play out on paper?
Phyllida Barlow RA and Harrison Birtwistle

RA Exhibitions

> 4 years ago

“Do you destroy your work? I do” – Phyllida Barlow and Harrison Birtwistle discuss creativity

As Phyllida Barlow prepares to open a new show of work at the RA, she joins composer Harrison Birtwistle, and journalist Fiona Maddocks, to exchange ideas about creativity – from how ideas arise to when you know they’re finished, and the trauma of titling.
The 2018 Summer Exhibition at the Academy

Opinion

> 4 years ago

“Cultural leaders are made, not born” – a manifesto for arts education

The director of the RA’s new Master in Cultural Leadership programme argues for a new approach in postgraduate education.