The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1914 was an art exhibition held in London. Organised by the British Royal Academy of Arts it took place at Burlington House in Piccadilly between 4 May and 15 August 1914. It was the last to be opened before the outbreak of the First World War, which British entered on 4 August 1914.
One of the most notable works on display was John Singer Sargent's Portrait of Henry James depicting his fellow Anglo-American Henry James. However it received notoriety when it was attacked by the suffragette Mary Wood. She slashed it three times with a meat cleaver.https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw03436 George Clausen's nude Primavera was also attacked by suffragettes.https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5807577 This was part of a wave of political vandalism by the suffragettes that summer.Garrett & Thomas p.194
Lady Feodora Gleichen displayed a nude statuette Woman of 1914 which attracted a degree of controversy, and has to be roped off to protect it from crowding.https://chronicle250.com/1914
The architect Edwin Lutyens outlined his planned designs for New Delhi the capital of British India.https://chronicle250.com/1914
References
Bibliography Garrett, Miranda & Thomas, Zoë. Suffrage and the Arts: Visual Culture, Politics and Enterprise. Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.