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Exhibitions

Does Allen Jones deserve a retrospective at the Royal Academy?

And are the women depicted in his fetish furniture a male fantasy or a terrible nightmare?

29 November 2014

9:00 AM

29 November 2014

9:00 AM

Allen Jones RA

Royal Academy, until 25 January

It has been a vintage season for mannequins. At the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, an exhibition called Silent Partners looks at the relationship between artist and mannequin, from function to fetish. In London, the Royal Academy is hosting a retrospective of the work of British artist and Academician Allen Jones.

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