Royal Academy Of Arts

Feminist and academic Professor Germaine Greer, disability rights advocate Dr Tom Shakespeare, artist Grayson Perry and Professor Mary Beard to find out what role visual art plays in creating and communicating body image.

On 22 December 2014, the Arts Club was the focus of a discussion on the BBC World Service. Anna Nunhofer, Families & Communities Co-ordinator at Royal Academy of Arts, explains how art can inspire marginalised and homeless people.

As part of a series of events on the artist Giovanni Battista Moroni, contemporary portrait painter Jonathan Yeo discusses Moroni's psychological realism in relation to his own work.

Novelists A. S. Byatt and Lawrence Norfolk venture together into Germany’s dark woods to discover witches, goblins, lost children and treasure.

This panel discussion explores Anselm Kiefer's use of heroic symbols, beginning with his 'Occupations' series from the 1960s.

An evening lecture in which art critic and historian Jonathan Jones discusses Moroni's 'The Tailor' and offers an interesting interpretation.

A free lunchtime lecture in which the curator of 'Giovanni Battista Moroni', Arturo Galansino, offers an insightful introduction to the painter's work.

Painter and Royal Academician Frank Bowling discusses his life and work with Mel Gooding (Art critic and author of the Royal Academy’s monograph on Frank Bowling) and Courtney J. Martin (Assistant Professor of History of Art & Architecture at Brown University and Specialist in 20th Century British Art).

Listen to a sample from the audio guide to the exhibition 'Anselm Kiefer', which is at the Royal Academy until 14 December 2014.

Author Lionel Shriver (We Need to Talk about Kevin and Big Brother) reads her short story Vermin. On performing her short stories Shriver says: "When it works i like them better. I like being able to deliver a line well... It's nice to be able to deliver passages in the sprit that i wrote, so that you can hear them as i hear them." In partnership with Pin Drop.

How does artist Anselm Kiefer use mythology, history, literature, philosophy and science in his work? What meanings do lead, straw, fire, earth, and water hold for him? Our exhibition curator uncovers the artist’s world.

Venture into the ‘deep dark wood’ of Anselm Kiefer’s paintings to learn why representations of trees and forests feature so often in his work.

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Rafael Moneo delivers our Annual Architecture Lecture in the inspiring setting of the Summer Exhibition. Moneo is world-renowned for his intellectually and structurally rigourous buildings, such as the Kursaal Congress Centre in San Sebastián, the City Hall in Murcia and the Northwest Corner Building at Columbia University.

The Booker Prize-winning author of 'Waterland' and 'Last Orders' reads from his latest collection 'England and Other Stories'.

Internationally esteemed novelist Tim Winton reads from his collection of short stories 'The Turning'. In partnership with Pin Drop.

We’ve challenged three guest speakers to choose the five works in this year’s Summer Exhibition that intrigue them the most. BBC’s Arts Editor Will Gompertz attempts to narrow down his picks from the plethora of works on display.

We’ve challenged three guest speakers to choose the five works in this year’s Summer Exhibition that intrigue them the most. Fashion historian and DJ Amber Jane Butchart guides us through her favourite works.

We’ve challenged three guest speakers to choose the five works in this year’s Summer Exhibition that intrigue them the most. Curator Susie Allen guides us through her favourites.

Listen to a sample from the audio guide to the exhibition 'Radical Geometry: Modern Art of South America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection'.

Curator Susie Allen picks her favourite five works from this year's Summer Exhibition.