Royal Academy of Arts
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Royal Academy of Arts (London). In 1768 the artist Benjamin
West, with the architect William Chambers, approached George III for his approval of a national academy to foster a school of art, set standards of good taste, and provide for the free exhibition of works of excellence. The first president was Sir Joshua
Reynolds, whose famous
Discourses laid down the basic concepts of the Academy.
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Royal Academy takes its lumps Art
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 8/26/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...news. So it is with the Royal Academy of Arts. This year a widely publicized...the talk in London's art circles is that the Royal...guardian of the visual arts in Britain. In recent...director of the Milwaukee Art Museum, turned his guns...
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The Arts: Meltdown at the Academy Its new show has provoked attacks and resignations. So what is going wrong at the Royal Academy? Lucinda Bredin investigates
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 9/21/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Secretary of the Royal Academy. "Then they remember...Sometimes it goes wrong. The Royal Academy has been haunted, financially...survey of 20th-century art, The Age of Modernism...the ticket to lever the Royal Academy out of its debt...
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 "Khaleej Times (Dubai, United Arab Emirates)")
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Royal Academy Experts to Open Art Exhibition in Abu Dhabi.
Newspaper article from: Khaleej Times (Dubai, United Arab Emirates); 2/19/2009; 700+ words
; Summary: ABU DHABI - Art professors and curators from LondonAEs Royal Academy of Art will open the three...Smith, Chief Executive of the Royal Academy, who will give an...lecture on the history of the Royal Academy and the ways in which...
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Royal Academy shows art for adults only
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/15/1997; ; 700+ words
; The Royal Academy is to take the unprecedented...warning, unique in the Royal Academy's 230-year...It is understood that Royal Academy officials are...grossly offensive". The Royal Academy was, he said...advocate of much contemporary art including the Turner Prize...
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Paolozzi's work to take centre stage at Royal Academy exhibition ART: MEMORIAL EXHIBITION ART: MEMORIAL EXHIBITION Royal Academy to honour Leith's Pop Art master
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald; 4/23/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...at this year's Royal Academy of Arts (RA) Summer Exhibition...showing of Paolozzi's art outwith Scotland...exhibition, the biggest art event of its kind...respected in the art world and it's...Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition...
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Arts Etc: VISUAL ART: The dead hand of the Academy strikes again The Summer Exhibition Royal Academy LONDON
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/16/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...with royalty, so with the Royal Academy. The Academy's Summer...gap between good British art and art made, or selected...for "President of the Royal Academy". But wait...the exercise? For the Royal Academy to nudge the tastes...
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Creative independence--or state patronage? Artist's academies in England were--and are--complex political organisms, as two very different studies show.(School of Genius: A History of the Royal Academy of Arts)(Candidates for Fame: The Society of Artists of Great Britain, 1760-1791)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 8/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; School of Genius: A History of the Royal Academy of Arts JAMES FENTON Royal Academy of Arts, 35 [pounds sterling]/$60 ISBN 1903 97320...Matthew Hargraves's detailed study of the art scene in London in the 18th century. His book...
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Laugh, the beloved country. (African art exhibitions at the Royal Academy and Whitechapel Gallery in London, England)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 10/7/1995; 700+ words
; ...the Africa 95 show at the Royal Academy in London's West End...Seven stories about modern art in Africa" at the Whitechapel...more forgivable at the Royal Academy, which seeks to...becoming too solemn, the Royal Academy needed to strive...
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art; Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 6/5/2003; ; 700+ words
; Byline: BRIAN SEWELL Royal Academy Summer Exhibition The 235th Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy is upon us and...every aspect of British art supported by the twin Tates...were distinct from the Royal College, the Slade, Goldsmiths...
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Royal Academy tries the art of explanation
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/18/1996; 605 words
; The Royal Academy exhibition on Poussin, which...the start of a push to make art easier to understand for casual...traditional practice, the Royal Academy has put extended information...approachable for new visitors, the Royal Academy has omitted to explain...
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Royal Academy of Arts
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Royal Academy of Arts, London. The national art academy of England, founded in 1768...training and expert judgement in the arts and to arrange for the exhibition...opposition to creative and progressive art. In the late 19th and early 20th...
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Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, see SCHOOLS OF DRAMA .
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Royal Hibernian Academy
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
Royal Hibernian Academy, founded by royal charter...supported by purchases by the Art Union Lottery. In the...the National College of Art, Kildare Street, while...Gallery, supported by the Arts Council, has had a continuing...in the history of Irish art, although from the 1920s...
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Art: The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Book article from: American Eras
Art: The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Sources Early Academies. Inspired...prestigious Royal Academy in Great...creation of art institutions...Society of Fine Arts in New York...American art academy, established...American academies quickly fell...
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Academies of Art
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...extent to which the academy's goals and practices...anticipated those of later academies. Its guild functions...elevate the status of art and artist by supplementing...mere fact of the academy's existence and...placed over the minor arts, and once again...by this time the Royal ...
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