Royal Academy of Arts (archive)

In this podcast, Professor Lord Richard Harries of Pentregarth, former Bishop of Oxford, speaks to Tim Marlow, Director of Artistic Programmes at the RA about the way modern and contemporary art responds to the visual narratives of Christianity.

In this discussion, part of a series of events called ‘The Future of Housing’, a panel considers the effects and implications of the UK’s housing crisis.

Gretchen Diebenkorn Grant discusses the life and work of artist Richard Diebenkorn, her father.

In this podcast, a choreographer, an architect and an historian explore how our perception and comprehension of the world is shaped by the body and movement.

Art historian and curator MaryAnne Stevens explores the impact of Rubens on the Impressionists.

Would Lady Mary really have said that Lady Sybil was "banging on about her new frock", in 1912? British linguist David Crystal discusses his new book, 'Words in Time and Place'.

One of Mexico’s leading architects, Tatiana Bilbao creates buildings of powerful geometry, which connect to their sites and users on both material and emotional levels. In her lecture, Bilbao, discusses a number of recent housing projects and explores the ways her architecture weaves together people and place – whether in the house she designed for Mexican artist, Gabriel Orozco, or in social housing projects for the Mexican government.

Nico Van Hout, curator at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, explores the thread of Rubens’s influence through art history.

This discussion is part of a series which explores the creative spaces of artist’s studios, looking at the intersection between art and architecture. David Hills of architectural practice DSDHA discusses with artist and author Edmund de Waal the stunning studio they recently designed for him in south London as a creative backdrop to his evolving work. The studio is the result of a long-running conversation between architect and artist, which includes earlier collaborations on de Waal’s previous studio in Tulse Hill and other architectural commissions.

Award-winning and best-selling novelist Sebastian Faulks CBE reads a short story selected in response to ‘Rubens and His Legacy: Van Dyck to Cézanne’. In association with Pin Drop.

This intimate salon explores Allen Jones’s controversial work ‘Chair’ and its changing status as a piece of fine art, an erotic sculpture and an object of attack.

This is an extract from the audio guide to 'Richard Diebenkorn', on display in The Sackler Wing until 7 June 2015.

Exhibition curator Sarah C. Bancroft explores Richard Diebenkorn’s consuming attention to detail and improvisational process that led to his magnificent compositions.

Curator Arturo Galansino considers how the exhibition’s themes (violence, power, lust, compassion, elegance and poetry) can help us to understand the influence Rubens had on his fellow artists, up to and including the 20th century.

Curator Amanda Doran introduces this exhibition about the illustrator Charles Stewart (1915–2001), who was haunted by the Victorian novel Uncle Silas for over 40 years.