Rank #1: A closer look at Salvador Dalí's ‘Christ of Saint John of the Cross’

Feb 21 2018
1hr
Rank #2: Pin Drop Short Story Award 2018 with Gwendoline Christie

The RA and Pin Drop’s short story award offers a unique platform for emerging and established writers to showcase their short stories. The judging panel includes Pin Drop co-founders Elizabeth Day and Simon Oldfield, and the RA’s Artistic Director, Tim Marlow.
Sep 18 2018
32mins
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Rank #3: Making a mockery: exploring humour and satire in art

Aug 02 2019
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Rank #4: An introduction to James Ensor

Though largely unknown in the UK, James Ensor is celebrated as one of Belgium’s most innovative artists, an enigmatic figure who rejected the academic training of his youth to cultivate his own individual style in the face of considerable opposition and hostile criticism.
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Rank #5: Contemporary Urban Gardening

Image caption: video still of the dahlias in Emil Nolde's garden © Royal Academy of Arts
Apr 01 2016
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Rank #6: Don McCullin on war and poverty seen through a camera lens

Come to the next Festival of Ideas live in the RA's Benjamin West Lecture Theatre – line-up coming soon: https://roy.ac/FOI2019
Dec 21 2018
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Rank #7: A Work of Art: Colour and the Garden

Garden designers Dan Pearson, Tom Stuart-Smith and Sarah Price, and artist Stephen Chambers RA explore how colour is used in modern garden design, in a panel discussion led by critic and historian Tim Richardson.
Image caption: video still of the dahlias in Emil Nolde's garden © Royal Academy of Arts
Apr 01 2016
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Rank #8: Dementia and the power of art

Come to the next Festival of Ideas live in the RA's Benjamin West Lecture Theatre – line-up coming soon: https://roy.ac/FOI2019
Dec 21 2018
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Rank #9: Abstract Expressionism: an American art movement

An unparalleled period in American art, the rise of Abstract Expressionism in America in the 1930s and 1940s reflected the broader cultural context of mid-20th-century America. Global economic, social and political developments impacted on the American, and in particular New York, art scene and led to the emergence of a movement that broke with conventions and brought American art to prominence worldwide.
Nov 29 2016
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Rank #10: In conversation with Thomas Houseago

Ranging from monumental to smaller-scale works, Houseago’s sculptures simultaneously convey states of power and vulnerability. He uses mediums traditionally associated with classical and modernist sculpture – including carved wood, clay, plaster and bronze – as well as less traditional materials like rebar (reinforcing steel bars) and hemp.
Jul 10 2019
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Rank #11: An Introduction to Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse

Image caption: video still of the dahlias in Emil Nolde's garden © Royal Academy of Arts
Apr 01 2016
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Rank #12: Goldie on how creativity saved his life

Look out for details of the next Festival of Ideas, coming soon: https://roy.ac/FOI2019
Dec 21 2018
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Rank #13: Chris Wilkinson and Humphrey Ocean discuss drawing

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Rank #14: An introduction to Giovanni Battista Moroni

Feb 23 2016
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Rank #15: Antony Gormley RA and Rowan Williams in conversation

Jul 17 2018
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Rank #16: Luc Tuymans in conversation with Adrian Locke

Since the late 1970s, Tuymans’s easily-recognisable, sparsely-coloured figurative canvases have redefined the traditional genres of the everyday and history painting. Drawing in part on influences which range from Flemish Old Master painting to the contemporary mass media, his works are almost always painted from pre-existing imagery and produced in distinct, thematic series.
Dec 12 2016
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Rank #17: Michael Stipe In Conversation

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Rank #18: Paul Smith: finding inspiration in the everyday and the extraordinary

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Rank #19: Art critic Jonathan Jones discusses Moroni’s portrait ‘The Tailor’

Feb 23 2016
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Rank #20: Short Stories with Pin Drop and Lisa Dwan

Please note that for copyright reasons, we have only included a short excerpt of Lisa Dwan's reading of ‘Foirades/Fizzles’.
Feb 12 2018
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