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Royal Academy of Arts Review
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Royal Academy of Arts 
Museums / Galleries, Mayfair
Fodor's Review:
Burlington House was built in the Palladian style for the Earl of Burlington around 1720, and it's one of the few surviving mansions from that period. The chief occupant today is the Royal Academy of Arts (RA), and a statue of one of its famed members, Sir Joshua Reynolds, with artist's palette in hand, is prominent in the piazza of light stone and fountains by Michael Hopkins. It's a tranquil, elegant space for sculpture exhibits, and has a café with outdoor tables in summer. Further exhibition space has been afforded with the opening of 6 Burlington Gardens, the old Museum of Mankind, reached through the elegant walkway of Burlington Arcade. The collection of works by Academicians past and present as well as its most prized piece, the Taddeo Tondo (a sculpted disk) by Michelangelo of the Madonna and Child, on display in the Sackler Wing. The RA has an active program of temporary exhibitions; hugely successful exhibitions here have included Monet in the 20th Century (1999), Van Dyck (1999), and a Rodin retrospective (2006). Every June, the RA puts on the Summer Exhibition, a huge and always surprising collection of sculpture and painting by Royal Academicians and a plethora of other artists working today.
INFO
- Address: Burlington House, Piccadilly, Mayfair, London, W1
- Phone: 020/7300-8000; 020/7300-5760 recorded information
- Web site
- Cost: Admission varies according to exhibition
- Open: Sat.-Thurs. 10-6, Fri. 10-10
- Tube: Piccadilly Circus, Green Park
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