Royal Academy of Arts (archive)

Celebrated artist, influential teacher, Royal Academician and this year’s Summer Exhibition Coordinator, Michael Craig-Martin CBE RA joins Tim Marlow to reflect on his career and discuss some of the ideas and events that have shaped his achievements as an artist and teacher.

Eileen Cooper RA discusses with art writer Anna McNay the role of drawing in her practice, and why she considers it to be neither just a preliminary or secondary art form.

Coinciding with the publication of Catherine Lampert’s ‘Frank Auerbach: Speaking and Painting’, Tim Marlow talks to the painter Frank Auerbach

Listen to Man Booker Prize-winning British author Howard Jacobson speak at the Royal Academy's Annual Dinner 2015. The subject of his talk is art, in all its guises, and what he calls "the urgent necessity of play" - for Jacobson, the heart of the creative act.

Since the housing crisis, the concept of home ownership has changed beyond recognition. Due to spiralling prices, a significant amount of our young population look forward to a lifetime of renting, while the wealthy buy property for financial investment, rather than actual living. Our eclectic panel of experts addresses these issues from a variety of different perspectives.

Garden cities? Loosen the green belt? With a panel including a surveyor, an academic, an urban design expert and the head of a charity, this talk tackles the issue of where to build new housing. (295850)

In this event, a range of speakers examine the characteristics of places where people enjoy living and communities thrive, and discuss whether these can be applied in the future. The discussion shies away from abstract theory, in favour of concrete models taken from real life experience.

Together with the academic and writer Jacques Gubler, architect Bernard Tschumi discusses the work of his father, Jean Tschumi, an important figure in the Modern Movement. This talk forms part of a series reconsidering forgotten or overlooked figures in the history of architecture.

Continuing with our Future of Housing season, a panel of experts discuss how we might design homes that are appropriate and beneficial places to live. Drawing on both politics and aesthetics, this talk interrogates the housing crisis from a social point of view.

Famous for his letter to the then Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, the artist talks about the value of art in the school curriculum and the importance of visual communication since the beginning of civilisation.

Professor Robert Meyrick, co-curator of the RA’s ‘Stanley Anderson’ exhibition, introduces this printmaker, best known for his series of engravings memorialising England’s vanishing rural crafts.

A lecture by Winy Mass, the founder of MVRDV, one of world’s most innovative architectural practices. In this talk, Maas focuses on numerous housing projects, including the just completed Markthal in Rotterdam. He explores how the practice creates housing of consistent ingenuity, warmth and conceptual integrity for a variety of clients all over the world.

Artist Whitney McVeigh discusses an excerpt of her film-based artwork that asks women at the end of their life to talk about their experience and memories of birth.

Curator Edith Devaney explores the RA’s exhibition of Richard Diebenkorn, giving an overview of his career and considers why one of America’s most celebrated 20th century artists hasn’t been shown to a UK audience for more than 20 years.

As the RA celebrated International Women's Day on 8 March, this panel of female artists explores what it is like to be a woman in today’s art world.