Explore art works, paint-smeared palettes, scribbled letters and more... Artists and architects have run the RA for 250 years. Our Collection is a record of them.

Create ink drawings at this workshop for families. At this family studio, artist Desiree Greenish will take inspiration from our exhibition Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo. Our family ...

Join artist and poet Sophie Herxheimer to make your own poetic response to Victor Hugo. Famous for his epic novel Les Misérables, Victor Hugo used his poetry and drawings to dream up dramatic worlds ...

Have a go at making your own paint with eggs, make-up, spices and chalk. Have you ever eaten a runny egg for breakfast, then struggled to scrub the plate clean? Egg yolks are fast-drying and a strong ...

Picasso didn’t just draw on paper – he tore it, burnt it, and made it three-dimensional. From studies for Guernica to a 4.8-metre-wide collage, this exhibition brings together more than 300 works on ...

Ai Weiwei has worked in everything from paint to readymades. As our landmark exhibition examines work from 1993 up to the present day, we take a look at some of the key works to know from across Ai's ...

While the RA doors are temporarily closed, you can still experience our exhibition on Belgian artist Léon Spilliaert in this video tour of the galleries. Léon Spilliaert (1881–1946) was born in the ...

Explore the dark territories and raw emotions distilled in the artworks of Tracey Emin and Edvard Munch in this virtual tour of our landmark exhibition. See inside ‘Tracey Emin / Edvard Munch: The ...

For centuries the body has been a central subject in Western art, depicted in the telling of stories or as a means to explore what it is to be human. In the mid-twentieth century artists such as ...

Explore the first ever winter Summer Exhibition like never before and discover a myriad of works by household names and emerging artists inside this virtual tour. 252 years ago, a group of artists ...

In this long-read, performance art pioneer Marina Abramović speaks to Sinéad Gleeson from her New York home, ahead of her long-awaited show. Born in Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia in 1946, Marina ...

Joseph Cornell created curious worlds of long ago and far away in his boxes of found objects. We examine the work of this American trailblazer ahead of his RA exhibition. From the Summer 2015 issue of ...