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Pregnant Princess Beatrice beams as she dons floral dress for lunch at the Royal Academy of Arts
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Pregnant Princess Beatrice beams as she dons floral dress for lunch at the Royal Academy of Arts

Daily Mail  

A pregnant Princess Beatrice beamed at a London event this afternoon - one week after announcing that she is having a second child. It pushes Beatrice's sister Princess Eugenie back to 12th in line It was announced last week that Beatrice is expecting her second child with Edoardo, who also shares Sienna, three, with his wife, and Wolfie, eight, with …

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Entangled Pasts, 1768–now: Art, Colonialism and Change review: The Royal Academy politely reckons with its history
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Entangled Pasts, 1768–now: Art, Colonialism and Change review: The Royal Academy politely reckons with its history

The Independent  

Since the furious Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, prompted by the death of George Floyd, just about every cultural institution in Britain has made some sort of expiatory gesture, whether it’s offering to return artefacts or mounting a hastily organised display. Three-and-a-half years on, the Royal Academy offers its own ambitious response, putting great British artists of the past …

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Art gallery restaurants: Why the relationship between food and great artists is now official
11 months ago

Art gallery restaurants: Why the relationship between food and great artists is now official

The Independent  

Two years ago, at 8am, chef Richard Corrigan visited the Francis Bacon exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, then went to The Wolseley for champagne and a bacon sandwich with the archivist who had taken him round. open image in gallery Last year, chef Richard Corrigan opened The Portrait restaurant in London’s National Portrait Gallery “Truth to materials is …

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Still the most dangerous woman in art?
1 year, 2 months ago

Still the most dangerous woman in art?

BBC  

Marina Abramović: Is she still the most dangerous woman in art? Javier Hirschfeld Marina Abramović at London's Southbank Centre, where she is doing a 'takeover' with her performance art institute These images are projected in a gallery room at the current Marina Abramović retrospective at London's Royal Academy. While her own works are shown at the Royal Academy, the Marina …

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Marina Abramović, Royal Academy review: the world-famous performance artist’s early work is electrifying in this once-in-a-lifetime show
1 year, 3 months ago

Marina Abramović, Royal Academy review: the world-famous performance artist’s early work is electrifying in this once-in-a-lifetime show

The Independent  

That the first woman to be accorded the honour of a solo exhibition in the Royal Academy’s vast main galleries should be a Serbian performance artist might on the face of it seem surprising. It begins with images of her best-known work, The Artist is Present, a three-month-long “durational” performance in which Abramović sat staring at members of the public …

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Late Constable review, Royal Academy: Dark energy meets technical mastery
3 years, 1 month ago

Late Constable review, Royal Academy: Dark energy meets technical mastery

The Independent  

John Constable, the master of “conservative” British understatement represented by a turbulent black sky, with five vigorous, bordering-on-violent brushstrokes, that look positively abstract expressionist, indicating a tumultuous downpour from the heavens? Revered by modern masters of the order of Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach, these, we’ve come to assume, are the works that give us the “real Constable”, while the …

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Lockdown lifted: The best arts picks for May toJuly, from live music and theatre to comedy and art exhibitions
3 years, 7 months ago

Lockdown lifted: The best arts picks for May toJuly, from live music and theatre to comedy and art exhibitions

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire, 21 May-27 February 2022 David Hockney, …

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Why being creative is good for you
3 years, 11 months ago

Why being creative is good for you

BBC  

Why being creative is good for you Credit: Getty Images What is the key to creativity, and how does it help our mental health? Her "bedrock of creative recovery" prescription is to write "morning pages" – three pages of stream-of-consciousness longhand writing accomplished on rising, "when our rational, self-editing mind gets out of the way of intuitive inclination". Cameron's new …

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Feet of Jesus in Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper are revealed in 'gigapixel' detail by Google
4 years, 6 months ago

Feet of Jesus in Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper are revealed in 'gigapixel' detail by Google

Daily Mail  

The feet of Jesus in Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper have been revealed in gigapixel detail in a Google project that aims to bring some of the collection of Royal Academy of Arts online amid the coronavirus lockdown. Among the works digitised in super-high-resolution by Google's Art Camera team is Giampietrino and Giovanni Antonio Boltfraffio's oil-on-canvas copy of 'The …

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