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Angelica Kauffman at the Royal Academy review: still exceptional, even if the sentimentality is a bit cloying

A founding member of the RA and hugely successful, the painter is very much of her time – but still deserves our respect

Evening Standard · Feb 27, 2024

A colossal artistic joke – Flaming June at the Royal Academy review

A clever, titillating work offering easy visual thrills – Look at all that orange! Notice the nipple! – Frederic Leighton’s iconic painting is back in the UK while its Puerto Rico home undergoes repairs

The Guardian - UK · Feb 18, 2024

Entangled Pasts: Art, Colonialism and Change review – the most radical show in the RA’s history

The latest institution to confront its colonial past, the RA does so to enthralling effect, using the art and its subjects – spanning 250 years, from Turner to Lubaina Himid – rather than the wall texts to shock and enlighten

The Guardian - UK · Feb 4, 2024

The Last Supper recast: artist Tavares Strachan on reimagining Da Vinci’s dinner guests

He replaced Christ with Haile Selassie and took Judas’s place himself. The Bahamian’s epic artistic revisions, from space to the Arctic, hit Britain in 2024 – and the Royals are in his sights

The Guardian - UK · Dec 26, 2023

Marina Abramovic: Fearless Performance Artist's Dangerous and Daring Retrospective

Immerse yourself in the daring world of Marina Abramovic, the fearless pioneer of performance art, as she pushes boundaries and challenges conventions in t...

Top News · Dec 23, 2023

Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec review – a show full of surprises

From Monet’s pastel sunsets to a beautifully bleak Van Gogh landscape and Pissarro’s summer orchard, the RA gathers fragile, rarely seen works, many made at speed, out and about and up close

The Guardian - UK · Nov 26, 2023

Impressionists on Paper review – Van Gogh sets this rambling show on fire

Sterile sketches by Monet, Degas and Renoir make you grateful they mostly stuck to painting – but Toulouse-Lautrec and Van Gogh’s empathy and emotion steal the show

The Guardian - UK · Nov 21, 2023

Impressionists on Paper at the Royal Academy review: delight in these treasures – we may not see them again

This exhibition shows a different side to the ubiquitous Impressionists

Evening Standard · Nov 21, 2023

OPINION - Tracey Emin: I feel I smell like a public loo at a Fifties train station, but I'm loved

I came back from New York determined not to get the PEBs — for anyone not in the art world and unfamiliar with the term, PEB stands for Post Exhibition Blues.

Evening Standard · Nov 17, 2023

Impressionists on Paper at the Royal Academy will shed light (but not too bright) on a seismic shift in art

The museum's forthcoming exhibition is a chance to see fragile works that won't travel again for many years

Evening Standard · Nov 14, 2023