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 ...

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 ...

His self-portraits span his career From his first self-portrait at age 17 to his final one executed 64 years later, Freud committed himself to canvas throughout his life. To do so, he said, “you’ve ...

Flaming June is one of the most reproduced images in Victorian painting. What makes an artwork seize the public imagination in ways that give it a life far larger than its own? From the Spring 2024 ...

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 ...

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 ...