Talk:Royal Academy

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The bit I just added on the RA schools needs more content -- DrHydeous

Contents 1 Fire 2 Royal 3 the history of , & importance of annual exhibs in C218 & C19 not covered at all here! 4 Categories 5 Irrelevant links

[edit] Fire

Need to get a section up on here about the fire at the Royal Academy. I dont feel upto it because I am not familiar with the building so I felt someone else who is, should.

Potentially useful links:

• http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/display.var.897839.0.artworks_saved_from_huge_london_blaze.php
• http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006400178,00.html
• http://www.lse.co.uk/ShowStory.asp?story=RP2928477K&news_headline=fire_damages_building_next_to_royal_academy_
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5295874.stm?ls

Erebus555 10:32, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Added a brief paragraph (fire was in adjacent building 6 Burlington Gardens owned by Academy) and link to the BBC news item. Paul W 12:40, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Royal

If the RA receives no royal funding and has no royal patron, what makes it royal?

A Royal Charter Paul W 12:16, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] the history of , & importance of annual exhibs in C218 & C19 not covered at all here!

needs doingJohnbod 13:58, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Categories

I am not sure why did the category "Visitor attractions in London" which was there in the revision as of 14:26, 24 October 2006 got removed in the current revision (12:55, 31 October 2006). Is it what, no longer a visitor attraction? I might consider putting it back if there are no objections.

[edit] Irrelevant links

RE revert 00:25, 31 March 2007: "This is legit. It's a wiki article. The gallery (museum) has work by RAs in it." There is no mention of the Royal West of England Academy (RWA) within the main article. Neither is there mention of RA in RWA's own article. Tate Modern/Britain, NGA, Wallace Collection, NY's Metropolitan Museum of Art, and goodness knows what else, also have work by RAs -- are links from the RA article to these galleries and museums going to be introduced too? It is worth noting that 86.131.81.203 has been embedding the link in many other Wikipedia articles over the past 2 days. In some cases, these edits have already been reverted. — Pádraig Coogan 22:35, 31 March 2007 (UTC)