Meet the five artists who shaped over a century of art in India.

This autumn, experience the epic style of America's most important artist, Kerry James Marshall, whose powerful paintings place the lives of Black Americans front and centre. Internationally acclaimed ...

One of the world’s most influential living painters, Marshall is a virtuoso chronicler of Black American life – here are five things you need to know about the artist. Kerry James Marshall first ...

Take a look through the pages of one of Victor Hugo's sketchbooks and get an insight into the creative universe of one of France’s most famous writers.

Created on their return from an Antarctic expedition, these life jackets symbolise survival, whether it’s physical, material, or spiritual. Taking inspiration from a Victorian book of cyanotypes ...

From the desert of New Mexico to the clifftops of Guernsey, artists have found inspiration in all sorts of places. Here are five artist houses that are an extension of their owners' artistic ...

The value of art in our schools is immeasurable. Urgently, we need to bring it back. Yes, times are hard and budgets are tight. But that’s not why art is drying up in our schools. The truth is more ...

With Marina Abramović taking over the Main Galleries at the RA, we look at some other artists who have shaped the history of performance art. In 1951, German photographer Hans Namuth, after spending ...

In 19th-century France, working on paper was mainly seen as a means to an end – a tool used to prepare for finished paintings. The Impressionists changed that. They created works on paper – using ...

Hurvin Anderson was born in Birmingham in 1965. He lives and works in Cambridgeshire. He received a BA from Wimbledon School of Art, London in 1994 and an MA from the Royal College of Art, London in ...

Surreal, macabre, and captivating – William Kentridge’s early drawings immediately take you into a distinctive world. In this charcoal triptych, in a crowded room filled with men in evening-wear, a ...

From the Autumn 2022 issue of RA Magazine, issued quarterly to Friends of the RA. Francesca Wade is the author of Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars (Faber). She is ...