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Lecture Room, installation view. Summer Exhibition 2013. Photo credit: John Bodkin

What To Make Of This Year’s Summer Exhibition At The Royal Academy?

Over 1,250 works on display, but is it quantity of quality?

David Hockney, The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (Photo Jonathan Wilkinson)

Top 10 Art Exhibitions of 2012

What were our top 10 picks of 2012?

Mariko Mori  Transcircle 1.1, 2004.  © Mariko Mori Studio  Photo: Ole Hein Pedersen

Art Review: Mariko Mori – Rebirth @ Royal Academy

Sculptures filled with light make for a hypnotic exhibition.

LJF preview front cover

London Jazz Festival 2012 – On The Cheap

Festival preview for events that charge no more than 15 quid.

Stephen Chambers RA  The Big Country (detail), 2012  Screen print. © Stephen Chambers. Published by the artist. Printed at the Print Studio, Cambridge

Art Review: Stephen Chambers @ Royal Academy Of Arts

More experiments from the artist’s laboratory as frontier settlement is portrayed through a vast set of screenprints.

Chimera of Arezzo, Etruscan. Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana  Photo Antonio Quattrone, Florence

Exhibition Review: Bronze @ Royal Academy

Exquisite works from across the world show us that bronze is more than good enough.

Claude Monet, The Cliffs at Etretat. Copyright Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute,  Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA

Art Review: From Paris – A Taste for Impressionism @ Royal Academy

An impressive display of Impressionist paintings where Renoir and Pissarro steal the show.

David Mach, Layed Back. Photo courtesy John Bodkin.

Art Review: Summer Exhibition @ Royal Academy

The Summer Exhibition returns with over 1,000 works of art on display and available to buy.

London Art Fair, Business Design Centre.

London Art Fairs: A Beginner’s Guide

Overwhelmed by London’s many art fairs? Let us help you decide which one is for you.

Vincent and Flavia in Midnight Tango. Photo by Manuel Harlan

Arts Ahead: What’s On In London 31 January – 6 February

Our pick of the new dance, theatre, art and classical music on offer in London this week

Hotel Acatlan: Second Day, 1984-85. Colour lithograph on two sheets of handmade paper. Paper and image 73.0 x 193.0cm. Edition of 98. Copyright: Courtesy of the Alan Cristea Gallery

Exhibition Preview: David Hockney Moving Focus @ Alan Cristea Gallery

Another David Hockey show: but this one’s free