I have, in art matters, had neither help, or even good feeling from anybody, except the press men, with the exception of yourself and Godfrey Turner I don’t know one of them, even by sight, yet they have behaved most generously to me and I am brimful of gratitude for their kind help’. Victorian artists’ letters, then, function within rhetorical and professional systems, which they also helped create. Cornelia Parker RA explains what’s different about this year’s Summer Exhibition and the inspiration behind her ‘Black and White’ themed room. Most notable features include BuzzFeed, VSCO Journal Feature, Global Yodel, Quipsologies, Fastco Design, The Photographic Journal, Creative Minds, and Creative Spaces.

In 2008, he spelled “Obsessions make my life worse and my work better” out of 250,000 euro cents on the streets of Amsterdam. It now contains about 935 paintings, 350 sculptures, 700 plaster casts, 25,000 prints and drawings and 5,000 historic photographs. The threads converge near the ceiling, creating a haze of different colors reminiscent of the mind of an insomniac. Released on her birthday, this film celebrates her pioneering contribution to the field of sculpture.

To get your pupils involved in designing your art display, get them to design this Card Colouring Sheet. Their prominence, as well as their kindness to artists, made them magnets for artists’ letters compiled in their vast archives. Artists strove to be recognized as professionals with special knowledge, and the authority of expertise, making their networks with critics important means of negotiating the transference of economic to social capital and ultimately to the cultural capital of a future reputation. While White isn’t primarily known for typography art, this exhibition definitely earned its spot on our list.

Correspondences embrace letters sent to, and received from, family, patrons or fellow artists; they disclose details of the artists’ lives and work, life in Rome, the art market, and debates on aesthetics as well as politics and local culture. Every artist and architect that’s been elected to join us as a Royal Academician has donated an example of their work, known as a Diploma Work, to our Collection.French artist Alexis Persani takes typography graphic design to a whole new level, with these colorful, shiny, detailed 3D letters that make you want to reach out and touch them. Artists’ letters exposed relationships and hierarchies in the artworld—who needs whom for what goals, exemplified by their myriad letters F. G. Stephens reveal how artists used rhetorical strategies to convey their professional concerns in such a way that these concerns could enter journalism’s circulation of knowledge for artists’ economic benefit.