RA Magazine

Our Winter issue is out now. A special issue guest edited by artist Hew Locke, it previews the @royalacademy's 2024 exhibition 'Entangled Pasts, 1768–Now', with writers including @BernardineEvari exploring this landmark show about art and colonialism

Order a copy, or subscribe: shop.royalacademy.org.uk/books/bookshop…

Also inside: artist spotlights on Zineb Sedira, Hassan Hajjaj, Ebony G. Patterson and more; Harriet Stratis rifles through ‘Impressionism on Paper’, and a trip behind the scenes of ‘Marina Abramović’, shadowing the performance artists who appear in the show

Our Winter issue is out now. A special issue guest edited by artist Hew Locke, it previews the @royalacademy's 2024 exhibition 'Entangled Pasts, 1768–Now', with writers including @BernardineEvari exploring this landmark show about art and colonialism

Other highlights include a new story by @benokri, Tacita Dean on a breakthrough in Philip Guston's practice, Jorella Andrews on Frans Hals, and a celebration of Shane de Blacam, winner of this year's Royal Academy Architecture Prize. Order your copy here: shop.royalacademy.org.uk/books/bookshop…

The full interview is also available to read online: royalacademy.org.uk/article/marina…

Our autumn issue is out now! Inside, the inimitable Marina Abramović talks to @sineadgleeson about preparations for her long-awaited @royalacademy show, a landmark moment for both artist and institution.

The legend Marina Abramović in a brilliant interview with @sineadgleeson - some real insights to Marina’s process and resilience here. @RA_Mag

“Originality, creativity and skill.” Ahead of this year’s Young Artists’ Summer Show, opening on 18 July, find out how the judges go about choosing between the thousands of artworks submitted by students aged between 4 and 19 ⤵️ roy.ac/jkk34p

While Nancy Allen sourced ideas and inspiration from the vendors at Deptford Market royalacademy.org.uk/article/ra-mag…

Louis Morlæ found escape within a virtual nightclub he built and animated himself from scratch royalacademy.org.uk/article/ra-mag…

As the RA Schools Show prepares to open its doors, we met four graduating students at the places they found refuge away from the studio. For Motunrayo Akinola, that's an MMA gym in Islington: royalacademy.org.uk/article/ra-mag…

How can a show of African American art shape our understanding of race in Britain? Writer @garyyounge visits ‘Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers’ and asks how its lessons might be brought closer to home ⤵️ roy.ac/2ccqrr

“[Bacon] always looked at me as if I might have been someone he’d screwed and forgotten about … [but] his stuff is some of the best ever.” I interviewed David Remfry – watercolourist, nightclub flâneur, and curator of #RASummer Exhibition – for @RA_Mag roy.ac/z168fg

“I thought I was never going to do this.” David Remfry RA talks to @JamesCahill about his much anticipated role as co-ordinator of the #SummerExhibition, the origins of his 'Only Connect' theme and his highlights of this year's show. ⤵️ roy.ac/z168fg

My current obsession! The show opens 14 July

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A new short story, inspired by @SHONIBARESTUDIO by @IrenosenOkojie; inside the studio of Peter Barber (@PpeterPeter), and four final-year RA Schools students on where they find refuge from the studio.

Out now, the autumn issue, featuring pioneering Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, profiled by @TimAbrahams ahead of the practice's major @RoyalAcademy show