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Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2026 review: Clutter and disconnection isn’t quite what the RA intended

3/5 PIle ’em high… and perhaps take some binoculars to see the brushstrokes in that painting 10 feet above your head

Evening Standard

Michaelina Wautier review: Intensely pleasurable look at neglected female artist

5/5 This almost unknown mid-seventeenth century Flemish artist can stand alongside the greats

Evening Standard

Rose Wylie, art world pioneer at 91: ‘Success, if it comes earlier, can entrap you a bit’

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2026: Last week, Rose Wylie became the first female painter to have a solo show in the Royal Academy’s main galleries. She tells Jessie Thompson about why she’s never minded being misunderstood

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Royal Academy’s first female president given Freedom of the City of London

British abstract artist Rebecca Salter has exhibited all over the world including at the Tate, British Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum.

Evening Standard

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Simone Leigh’s ‘monumental’ Royal Academy show set for 2027

Exhibition by African American artist to focus on architecture, art under fascism and her own links to the UK

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‘My paintings don’t fit the narrative’: Kerry James Marshall on why he’s depicting black enslavers

He is arguably America’s greatest living painter, elevating everyday black life to the level of epic, jaw-dropping masterpieces. Now, for his biggest European show, the artist talks us through his disturbing new works

The Guardian - UK

Kiefer/Van Gogh review – Anselm puts the nightmare into Vincent’s sunflower visions

The Dutch artist looks like a prophet of the Holocaust when viewed through the 80-year-old German painter’s dark lens in this startling show, which makes you see how Van Gogh might have painted modern horrors

The Guardian - UK

Summer arrives with monsters, minimalism and a memorial quilt – the week in art

Big names liven up the Royal Academy’s annual extravaganza, Durham digs into its past and Tate welcomes the Aids memorial quilt

The Guardian - UK

Jim Royle’s take on Tracey Emin ‘masterpiece’

The Guardian - UK

I have seen the light and it’s Tracey Emin’s Jesus – RA Summer Exhibition review

With an extraordinary painting by Emin, great works by Cindy Sherman, Cornelia Parker and Sean Scully, assisted by some perving from Allen Jones, this annual jamboree has returned to relevance

The Guardian - UK

Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo at the Royal Academy is dark and brilliant

The Royal Academy’s latest exhibition, Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo offers a rare glimpse into the dark and moody world of the renowned writer best known for his novels The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Misérables.

The Conversation

Why JMW Turner is still Britain’s best artist, 250 years on

The revered artist conjured groundbreaking scenes of gods, legends and lost civilisations, but, more than anything, his work came to represent the complex soul of Britain like that of no artist before or since

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Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo at the Royal Academy review : 'unnerving'

3/5 Victor Hugo was a prolific artist as well as a towering author and poet, but his strange work is more interesting and unnerving than truly great

The Guardian - UK

Sensual surrealism, Kiefer’s delights and Gehry’s Guggenheim: the best art and architecture shows to visit in 2025

Anselm Kiefer’s homage to Van Gogh, Ithell Colquhoun’s seaside of surrealism and Gilbert & George fill the galleries, while the V&A opens its archives at the illustrious new East Storehouse

The Guardian - UK

The Observer view: how Leonardo, Van Gogh and Monet help us to transcend the gloom

Four exhibitions in London this autumn remind us that creativity and imagination are the opposite of authoritarianism

The Guardian - UK

Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo: who is the greatest of the Renaissance masters?

Ahead of a new exhibition at London’s Royal Academy of Arts, writers make a case for each of Renaissance art’s big three, from the secretive genius of Leonardo to Raphael’s beguiling brilliance and the space-filling majesty of Michelangelo

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Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael at the Royal Academy review: a gem of a show and a testament to staggering genius

5/5 This exhibition is almost understated with its subdued décor and lighting yet mind blowing in suggestion and imagination

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‘I have taken risks, but Damien is a staggering risk-taker’: Michael Craig-Martin on style, the YBAs and being the great late bloomer of British art

Ahead of a major retrospective at the Royal Academy, the veteran artist and mentor to Hirst, Lucas et al talks about his nomadic early years, halcyon days at Goldsmiths – and the moment he stopped being ‘frightened’ of colour

The Guardian - UK

What is art for, if not for political discourse

The Guardian - UK

‘I took it personally’: Rejects, the show for artists rebuffed by the Royal Academy

The RA selected 1,700 works for its summer exhibition – but almost 10 times that number were rejected. Now some have a place to shine at last

The Guardian - UK

Love through the lens, a dynasty of Japanese printmaking and Leeds’s finest – the week in art

The Yoshida family’s remarkable legacy, Alison Wilding’s subtle and surprising sculptures and this year’s rather tired effort from the Royal Academy

Evening Standard

The best exhibitions in London this summer, from Barbie to Vincent van Gogh

From rare works from Renaissance masters, to photography series celebrating play, the city is packed with dazzling art shows

The Guardian - UK

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition review – a gasping death-rattle of conservative mediocrity

Pampered pets, polite portraits and enough wan landscapes to fill a field – this show mirrors the numbed, aimless condition of Britain after 14 years of Tory misrule

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