Royal Academy 2011 schedule

Eye witness: Hungarian photography in the 20th century will celebrate Hungary’s modern photographic tradition using images such as this one by Robert Capa. Collaborator woman who had a German soldier's child, Chartres, 18 August 1944 (gelatin silver print, 33 x 49 cm, Hungarian Museum of Photography, Kecskem; International Center of Photography/Magnum Photos) Photograph: Robert Capa/Royal Academy of Art

The exhibition, which will run from June to October, will showcase some 200 photographs taken between 1914 and 1989, among them Andre Kertsz: Satiric Dancer, Paris, 1926 (gelatin silver print, 25.2 x 20.3 cm, Hungarian Museum of Photography) Photograph: Royal Academy of Art

Degas Dancers: Eye and Camera, running from September to December, will trace the development of Edgar Degas’s ballet imagery across the course of his career. Pictured here is Deux Danseuses au Foyer, c. 1873-5 (pastel and gouache on paper, 298 x 210 mm; private collection, courtesy of Halcyon Gallery, London) Photograph: Royal Academy of Arts

The show will be the first to present Degas’s progressive engagement with the figure in movement, from the documentary mode of the 1870s to the sensuous approach of his final years. The Dance Lesson, c. 1879, belongs to the former (oil on canvas, 38 x 88 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington; collection of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon, 1995) Photograph: Royal Academy of Art

Opening in late October is Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935. Shown here is a view of Havosko-Shabolovskii residential block and Shabolovka radio tower, as seen from Ulitsa Serpukhovsky Val, Moscow, in 1922 Photograph: Royal Academy of Art

The exhibition will show how the drive to create a new socialist society encouraged a synthesis between radical art and architecture, leading to the engagement of artists such as El Lissitsky, whose Sketch for Proun 6B, 1919-21, is shown here (pencil and goache on paper; State Museum of Contemporary Art - Costakis) Photograph: Andreas Sfiridis/Royal Academy of Art

Building the Revolution's diverse subject matter will include rural scenes, portraits of artists in 1930s Paris, iconic war photography, and unusual shots such as this one of the Shabolovka Tower, taken by Richard Pare in 1998 Photograph: Richard Pare/Royal Academy of Art

Between March and June, the Royal Academy will present the first retrospective exhibition of the drawings of Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684 – 1721), including Studie av tv kvinnor (NMH 280/1980) Photograph: Nationalmuseum/Royal Academy of Art

Watteau is particularly renowned for his mastery of the "three chalks" or trois crayons technique. Here we see the late work Three Studies of a Young Girl Wearing a Hat, c. 1716 (red and black chalk, graphite on paper, 138 x 246 mm; collection of Ann and Gordon Getty) Photograph: Royal Academy of Art

Opening in January is Modern British Sculpture, the Academy's first show on this subject for 30 years. Seen here is Early One Morning, 1962, by Anthony Caro (painted steel and aluminium object: 2896 x 6198 x 3353 mm) Photograph: Royal Academy of Art

The exhibition, which also features Sarah Lucas's Portable Smoking Area, 1996 (wood, chair, weights, chrome stand, shellac 180 x 76 x 140 cm; collection of Ursula Blickle), aims to reshape traditional conceptions of British sculpture. Picture © of the artist, and courtesy of Sadie Coles HQ, London Photograph: Royal Academy of Art