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James McNeill Whistler, Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl, 1862.

RA Exhibitions

12 months ago

Who was Whistler’s Woman in White?

Take a tour of the exhibition ‘Whistler’s Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan’ with its curators, and delve into the life of the artist’s principal model.
Diana Armfield, Last Nasturtium of the Season

Artists

2 years ago

“Like a portrait painter with their sitters, I have the feeling of a real relationship with the flowers I paint”

100-year-old artist Diana Armfield RA writes about the joy of painting the flowers in her garden.
Imogen Cunningham , Ruth Asawa, Sculptor, at her Door

RA Recommends

2 years ago

Ruth Asawa: the pioneering American sculptor you need to know

This International Women’s Day, we celebrate an artist once dismissed as a “San Francisco Housewife” who refused to see parenthood as an obstacle.
Portrait of Joy Labinjo

Artists

2 years ago

In the studio with Joy Labinjo

Joy Labinjo is quietly changing the course of art history from a small studio in south London. Writer Fiona Maddocks meets Labinjo to discuss her ambitious paintings, and the next steps in her career.

Jennifer Packer, Say Her Name

RA Recommends

2 years ago

Jennifer Packer’s intimate portraits of Black lives

As the first major European show of Packer’s work opens, Aruna D’Souza celebrates the painter’s powerful repurposing of art historical tradition.
Tracey Emin, Homage to Edvard Munch and All My Dead Children

RA Exhibitions

> 2 years ago

Munch’s influence on women artists

Art historian Patricia Berman traces Edvard Munch’s surprising influence on women artists, from Tracey Emin RA and Marlene Dumas Hon RA, to Louise Bourgeois and Maria Lassnig.