Royal Academy of Arts

There’s a whole lot of Tony at the RA. Just room after room of Gormley, Gormley, Gormley. He’s a series of staccato pixelated blocks, an exploding cloud of frazzled steel, a silhouette chomped out of white bread. Everywhere you look, Antony Gormley’s...

If you’re British, Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946) is a relatively unknown artist. If you’re Finnish, Helene Schjerfbeck is a very famous artist. This show of 60 paintings is the first chance London audiences have had to join the Schjerfbeck fan club. Separating...

Lucian Freud isn't especially known for his self-portraits, but it turns out he did quite a few of them - enough to fill an exhibition, anyhow. Famed for his unremitting and - according to artist Celia Paul - 'clinical' gaze, Freud's images of himself...

Slightly different offering from the Royal Academy to normal, this thoroughly modern exhibition looks at artists and architects doing their bit in the fight against climate change and other assorted horrors facing the planet. The show focuses on creatives...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single year in the London art calendar cannot pass by without a solo exhibition of for Pablo Picasso. This one, at the Royal Academy, is dedicated to the Spanish artist's use of paper. Unlike other artists...

Get a dose of the gothic, the solitary and the moody with the first solo exhibition in the UK dedicated to Léon Spilliaert (1881 - 1946). The Belgium painter lived his life between Ostend and Brussels, concocting a style that has more than a hint of Edvard...