The Royal Academy of Arts in London is giving itself an artistic makeover. Beginning Saturday, the neoclassical institution known for exhibiting Queen Victoria's paintbrushes and J.M.W. Turner's seascapes is devoting all its galleries for the first time to a contemporary artist, Anish Kapoor. Creations by Anish Kapoor View Slideshow Anish Kapoor/Barbara Gladstone Gallery ‘Svayambh,’ one of the pieces by artist Anish Kapoor on display at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. The major survey, "Anish Kapoor," up through Dec. 11, aims to shake up the academy's top-hat reputation by giving free rein to a popular sculptor who makes space-age art from mirrored spheres and globby wax, according to Adrian Locke, exhibitions co-curator. The academy will likely spotlight more contemporary artists in the future. "We don't want to be pigeon-holed into the past," he says. Mr. Kapoor, a London-based sculptor who has represented England in the Venice Biennial and won the Tate's Turner Prize, seized the opportunity to get messy.[Read more...]