Royal Academy poster campaign calls for increased arts education in UK schools
Posters dotted around London declaring “art is a serious subject” and “imagination is worth teaching” are turning heads. The billboards ...
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Paula Rego paintings replace royal portrait at No.10 Downing Street
Two works by the late Portuguese artist Paula Rego have gone on show at No.10 Downing Street, the home of ...
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Axel Rüger leaves London’s Royal Academy for New York’s Frick Collection
Axel Rϋger, the secretary and chief executive of the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) in London since 2019, has been ...
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A glorious show of Tudor royal splendour to open at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art
With a penchant for power, and a willingness to let heads roll, England’s Tudor monarchs, who ruled from 1485 to ...
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Podcast | Art and the British Royal Family; museums’ energy crisis; Fuseli’s The Nightmare
Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the proclamation of King Charles III, Ben Luke speaks to the former ...
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the right royal story behind the lavish, 500-year-old textiles
The Jubilee decorations have been taken down across the UK and the queen has retired to Balmoral for a well-deserved ...
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the Summer Exhibition 2022 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition has just opened, that annual jamboree of popular curiosity and critical ridicule. This year’s edition ...
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First Nation calls for portion of $789m Royal British Columbia Museum building budget to be spent repatriating Indigenous artefacts
In a new twist in the ongoing saga of the Royal British Columbia Museum’s plan to spend C$789m ($626m) demolishing ...
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Historic English villa—built by royal mistress to escape her ‘stinker’ of a husband—reopens after restoration
Marble Hill was built beside the River Thames in 1724 as a haven from an abusive husband and the Georgian court, ...
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