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Royal Academy of Arts

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A Dazzling and Troubling Display of Spanish Expansion

Avatar photo by Olivia McEwan February 13, 2023February 13, 2023

While acknowledging the horrors of colonialism, Spain and the Hispanic World also highlights the exchange of traditions and ideas.

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What Constable Sacrificed for His Artistic Success

by Michael Glover November 18, 2021November 18, 2021

Sentimentality would creep into the artist’s late evocations of remembered childhood scenes, as would idealization.

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The Melancholy Marriage of Tracey Emin and Edvard Munch

by Michael Glover January 23, 2021January 22, 2021

What do Emin and Munch have in common other than a burning desire to embrace, and be defined by, the miseries of life?

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Cézanne’s Hard Truths

Avatar photo by David Anfam October 31, 2020November 6, 2020

For Cézanne, stone represented structure incarnate.

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Léon Spilliaert’s Nocturnal Visions

Avatar photo by Natalie Haddad August 22, 2020November 5, 2020

Spilliaert saw his hometown of Ostend, Belgium, as a kind of liminal space between the outside and his interior world.

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Picasso, Paper Monster

by Michael Glover January 25, 2020January 24, 2020

Paper, in short, was at one with Picasso’s nature.

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Lucian Freud’s Shadow Self

by Michael Glover December 14, 2019December 13, 2019

As a displaced refugee, Freud knew he would always be something of a stranger to himself, but how much would he ever wish to know of himself?

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Antony Gormley Explores the Body as a Space Within a Space

Avatar photo by Anna Souter October 9, 2019October 8, 2019

This exhibition, Antony Gormley returns repeatedly to the motif of the artist’s own body to explore the significance of differences in scale and the negative space around an artwork.

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The Hollow Heart of Antony Gormley’s Spectacle

by Michael Glover September 28, 2019September 27, 2019

Is there something self-aggrandizing about Gormley’s career-long obsession with making casts of his own body?

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In a Perplexing Pairing, Michelangelo Overwhelms Bill Viola

Avatar photo by Maria Cynkier February 13, 2019February 12, 2019

While Michelangelo’s sketches are, like human existence, full of contradictions, Viola’s work relies primarily on empty spectacles.

Grayson Perry alongside the Banksy artwork in the Royal Academy's 2018 summer exhibition (screenshot by the author via Vimeo)
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Anti-Brexit Work by Banksy that Was Initially Rejected by Royal Academy Goes On View

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton June 13, 2018

The street artist originally submitted the work under the pseudonym “Bryan S Gaakman.”

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Dalí and Duchamp’s Lasting Friendship, and the Art It Might’ve Inspired

Avatar photo by Olivia McEwan December 22, 2017December 21, 2017

For the first time, an exhibition explores these artists’ friendship and the visual parallels within their distinct work.

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