Wishful thinking on my part ;D I was reading that as 10 prints for £500, and not 10 prints each priced at £500 or less EACH.

Anyone visited? Highlights?

Van Gogh Self Portraits

Hi all,

How cool is this?

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10281909.stm

Check out the Gorilla!!

I do like David Mach's stuff, the use of the coat hangers makes the sculpture itself extremely detaield but the hooks mess with your eyes and make areas go in an out of focus close up.

They really mess with your eyes if you walk into them bad boys,,,

I love the woman standing infront of Callum Innes work, who appears to have colour coordinated herself to match it exactly.......

actually looks like my nan oddly enough, she loves her berets.

I remember it well Replete, loved the Sumo's.
Really liking the gorilla, seen a few of his pieces and they're very impressive. Love the illusion of motion.

RA Editions

www.royalacademy.org.uk/raeditions/#photos=gallery_%252Fgallery.html%253FLgalleryHandleId%253D481

I went to listen to Michael Craig-Martins talk on Friday, was hoping to hear some info regarding his choices for the room he curated at the summer exhibit. Unfortunately it turned into a bit of a love in and i was bored after about 10 minutes. Shame, could have been very interesting.

RA Burlington Gardens Festival
The RA takes to the streets for a vibrant, free arts festival
Special events

Saturday 2 July 2016
12 — 6pm

Burlington Gardens will be pedestrianised for the day with activities filling the street in front of Yinka Shonibare’s monumental artwork ‘RA Family Album’ which wraps our building during construction. Looking both at the past and towards the future, the artwork showcases the RA as an inclusive, dynamic place for artists, creativity and learning.

Artists from the Royal Academy Schools, Yinka Shonibare’s Guest Projects residencies, and the Brazen Bunch Collective will host installations, performances and activities on the day.

Other highlights include:

Art installations and performances
Breezing through Closer, Fani Parali, RA Schools

Experience a one-to-one performance in a specially designed structure in the street, which contains a dream-like set that forms the backdrop of an intimate moment to be lived, felt and heard.

Tilt, Clara Jo, RA Schools Starr Fellow

A film installation that creates a contemporary parallel of an Enlightenment World, employing current museological digital imaging technologies as devices to penetrate the surface of scientific and artistic objects from the RA Collections and Archives, the Burlington Courtyard Learned Societies and the Imaging and Analysis Centre at the Natural History Museum.

Collective as Family

Alt MFA (Alternative Masters of Fine Art) will be looking at collectivity as family, with Alt MFA members collaborating with each other, their family members and looking at the connections between us.

Based on a mind-mapping exercise developed at Guest Projects, artists Sadie Edginton, Shinji Toya, Anousha Payne, Amy Leung, Johanna Bolton and Nathania Hartley will host a stall with different performative works spiralling off into the festival. Timed performances and happenings will lead you across the site to reimagine the space through participatory artworks.

Plus live art by Zilvinas Vaitiekunas from the Brazen Bunch Collective, created in response to Yinka Shonibare’s Family Album

Samba parade with i=u Join a lively parade led by i=u and the Artful Badger where samba dancers and musicians will lead you through the RA’s back-of-house spaces, at the end of the festival taking you to the RA’s Annenberg Courtyard where the bar will be open until 10pm.

Poetry performances
Poets Belinda Zhawi, Kareem Parkins-Brown and Victoria Anne Bulley will perform works in response to Yinka’s ‘RA Family Album’.

www.royalacademy.org.uk/event/ra-burlington-gardens-festival?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_term=&utm_content=Burlington%20Gardens%20Festival&utm_campaign=RA%20News%20July%202016&emailcode=

Thank you met.
I trust all is good with you.

Not strictly urban but should be good

www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/abstract-expressionism?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_term=&utm_content=Abstract%20Expressionism&utm_campaign=AbEx%20%282%29%20opens%20in%204%20weeks%2027.08.16&emailcode=

The giants of 20th-century art are on their way

Experience the scale, colour and energy of America’s greatest art movement in this autumn’s must-see exhibition.

Abstract Expressionism emerged in 1940s New York, where artists like Pollock, Rothko and de Kooning broke new ground to create art that was bold, profound and expansive enough to express the anxieties of the modern age.

Now their radical masterpieces will be brought together in a long-overdue celebration of the entire movement. See some of the most iconic works including paintings, sculptures and photographs by well-known and less-familiar artists that contributed to Abstract Expressionism’s vast scope and complexity.

Get ready for this unmissable show and find out what makes an Abstract Expressionist artwork with five key things to know about the movement.

Exhibition opens 24 September. Friends of the RA go free.

This is a huge one!

Abstract Expressionism at the RA




"Experience the scale, colour and energy of America’s greatest art movement in this autumn’s must-see exhibition.

Abstract Expressionism emerged in 1940s New York, where artists like Pollock, Rothko and de Kooning broke new ground to create art that was bold, profound and expansive enough to express the anxieties of the modern age.

Now their radical masterpieces will be brought together in a long-overdue celebration of the entire movement. See some of the most iconic works including paintings, sculptures and photographs by well-known and less-familiar artists that contributed to Abstract Expressionism’s vast scope and complexity."

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24th September to 2nd January