Royal Academy of Arts
A simple walk from Green Park tube station along busy Piccadilly will bring you to one of London’s most important cultural attractions, the Royal Academy of Arts. It has a long-standing reputation for putting on exhibitions designed to draw in international audiences. You won’t be disappointed with their latest offering, Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution, 1760-1830.
This fabulous exhibition covers one of the most eventful periods in European and US history. It includes the works by the great talents of David, Goya as well as Reynolds, Gainsborough and their successors. And its not just an opportunity to meander through drawing and paintings of kings in powdered wigs and the odd old and forgotten parliamentarian. Single rooms are entirely devoted to powerful monarchs like Catherine the Great and Napoleon painted so vividly by Ingres. This exhibition is above all an unforgettable mix of some of the great protagonists of the age.
Another must see event will be ‘The Unknown Monet- Pastels and Drawing exhibition running until 10 June, a first of its kind at the Royal Academy devoted to Monet’s magnificent drawing and pastels.
No sooner has this event finished than the Royal Academy will entice you back to enjoy their Summer Exhibition starting 11th June. The Summer Exhibition is the world’s largest ‘open’ contemporary art exhibitions, showcasing work by unknown and emerging artistic talent alongside that of more established painters, sculptors and architects.
The Royal Academy (www.royalacademy.org.uk)