Royal Academy of Arts (archive)

This summer, Yorkshire Sculpture Park celebrates David Nash's forty-year career with his largest exhibition to date. Nash is perhaps best known for his eloquent understanding of trees, working with their traits to create sculpture, installations and related drawings. He is joined in conversation by Peter Murray OBE, Executive Director of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and renowned art critic Dr Richard Cork.

Lectures delivered at the symposium 'Ballardian Architecture: Inner and Outer Space', held at the Royal Academy of Arts on 15 May 2010. Part two, chaired by Gavin Parkinson, features a series of brief but powerful commentaries which each open up particular insights into Ballard's work, and together explore how Ballard's perceptions may challenge and inform contemporary architecture. The closing comments are by Ballard's partner Claire Walsh. For full details see http://bit.ly/dt1TAU

Lectures delivered at the symposium 'Ballardian Architecture: Inner and Outer Space', held at the Royal Academy of Arts on 15 May 2010. Part one, chaired by Jeremy Melvin, contains papers presented by John Gray, Nic Clear and David Cunningham, followed by a discussion. For full details see http://bit.ly/dt1TAU

One of a series of lectures in which architects outline their ideas for and responses to library projects. Danish architectural practice Schmidt Hammer Lassen see libraries as central to the development of contemporary culture and civic spaces of our cities. Partner, Morten Schmidt, discusses the evolution of their thinking from the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen opened in 1999 to the University of Aberdeen New Library, now on site.

An evening talk in support of the exhibition 'Paul Sandby RA: Picturing Britain, A Bicentenary Exhibition'. Map-making was a major part of Paul Sandby's early career on the Military Survey of Scotland, and much of his subsequent landscape art maintained connections with cartography. Professor Stephen Daniels, University of Nottingham, shows how cartography arguably enlarged the scope and power of Sandby's art.

A new series in which critics make a case for what they consider to be London's most significant or important building. In this talk, Hans Ulrich Obrist discusses The unrealised Fun Palace by Cedric Price; with responses from Jude Kelly, Jeremy Melvin and Catherine Croft. This event took place on 22 March 2010.

A new series in which critics make a case for what they consider to be London's most significant or important building. In this talk, broadcaster Dr Tristram Hunt discusses Trafalgar Square, with responses from Edward Jones, Margaret Richardson and Matthew Gandy. This event took place on 8 March 2010.

A new series in which critics make a case for what they consider to be London's most significant or important building. In this talk, historian Elain Harwood discusses the Commonwealth Institute, with responses from Paul Finch, MaryAnne Stevens and Alan Crawshaw. This event took place on 22 February 2010.

A lunchtime lecture by Martin Bailey, author and curator.

The 2002 critically acclaimed and award-winning play 'Vincent in Brixton' dramatised the artist's life in Brixton in 1873. Leading actor Jochum Ten Haaf discusses his research and preparation for the role of Vincent with Mark Edel-Hunt, who portrayed Vincent in the play's 2009 national tour.

An evening talk in support of the exhibition 'The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters'. Renowned author Martin Gayford brings to life the fraught two months in 1888 in which these two great artists shared a small house in Arles, the tensions that arose and the creative cross-pollination that resulted. Please note that parts of this recording have low levels of audio interference.

An introduction to the exhibition 'The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters' by Ann Dumas, exhibition curator.

Author and Van Gogh scholar Wouter van der Veen takes us on a journey through Van Gogh's literary influences, focusing on Van Gogh as a reader of novels and poetry, and offering an unconventional approach to his work.

An exciting confluence of developing art practices, art colleges and art institutions propelled Los Angeles into the 1960s cultural spotlight. Renowned artists Ed Ruscha and John Baldessari, Senior Curator of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Carol S. Eliel, contemporary art collector Joan Quinn, and Professor Cecile Whiting, University of California, Irvine, recollect the West Coast art scene of the 1960s in this special panel discussion. They delve into how Southern California-based artists negotiated 1960s Los Angeles - the centre of popular culture and urban sprawl - through their art, the influence of the West Coast's art colleges on American art practice of the decade, and the growth and impact of Southern California's museums and galleries. Supported by The Henry Luce Foundation.

In 1974, Ann Christopher RA and her husband, foundryman Ken Cook, reconstructed Jacob Epstein's seminal work 'Rock Drill' for the Hayward Gallery's exhibition 'Vorticism and its Allies'. They join Dr Richard Cork, curator of both 'Vorticism and its Allies' and 'Wild Thing', at the Royal Academy, to revisit the 1974 exhibition, explore the significance of Epstein's 'Rock Drill', and consider its outstanding place in the history of modern British sculpture.