The Royal Academy of Arts, Britain's oldest society devoted to the fine arts, celebrates its 250th birthday in 2018 after having moved to Burlington House a century ago. To celebrate, the RA underwent a 56-million makeover. Its collection of drawings, paintings, architectural designs, photographs, and sculptures by past and present Royal Academicians, such as Sir Joshua Reynolds, John Constable, Thomas Gainsborough, JMW Turner, David Hockney and Tracey Emin, has traditionally been male-dominated, but this is gradually changing.