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    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      David Bowie
      David Bowie’s vast archive donated to V&A Museum

      More than 80,000 items, many never seen in public before, will be held at new hub in east London

    • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
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      Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance, V&A — exhilarating glimpse of Florentine master

      The UK’s first ever show devoted to the artist has psychological intensity and revolutionary technique

    • Saturday, 6 August, 2022
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      Artist Osman Yousefzada: ‘I’m putting my history in the V&A foyer for everyone to see’

      He has gone from designing clothes for Beyoncé to exploring his south Asian heritage in an installation at the museum

    • Friday, 8 July, 2022
      Watches & Jewellery
      African jewellery designers bask in London V&A limelight

      Their work challenges the expectation of what jewellery is, says museum’s curator

    • Wednesday, 6 July, 2022
      Fashion
      New fashion exhibition at the V&A focuses on African creativity

      Curator Christine Checinska aims to capture the complexity of the continent’s style

    • Monday, 20 June, 2022
      Art of Fashion: jewellery
      Jewellery preservation — handle with care

      Conservator Katrina Redman saves jewels in danger of deterioration at the V&A

    • Friday, 11 March, 2022
      HTSIThe men’s style issue: spring 2022
      Gender fluidity in fashion is older than you think

      A new exhibition at the V&A suggests menswear has always been radical. We compare past and present

    • Friday, 24 December, 2021
      Visual Arts
      The best art of 2021, from Goya via the Turbine Hall to a revived Courtauld

      Our critic surveys a year where hope and joy animated exhibitions but the culture wars continued their creep

    • Wednesday, 27 October, 2021
      UK Budget
      Crisis-hit museums and galleries welcome expansion of tax relief

      Treasury confirms additional funding of £850m for cultural institutions as they recover from pandemic

    • Friday, 11 June, 2021
      Best FT Weekend long reads of 2021
      The ‘war on woke’: who should shape Britain’s history?

      Monuments, museums and galleries are caught uneasily between activists and an interventionist government

    • Wednesday, 19 May, 2021
      Visual Arts
      Epic Iran at the V&A — a bracing journey across five millennia

      The museum’s expansive exhibition attempts to weave a thread from the ancient to the contemporary

    • Sunday, 3 January, 2021
      HTSI
      A brief history of the man bag

      An exhibition at the V&A proves that men have long clutched a ‘burse’

    • Friday, 24 January, 2020
      Visual Arts
      Whistler’s ‘Peacock Room’ reinterpreted at the V&A

      The installation by Darren Waterston is, like the original, an ‘overbearing exercise in decadence’

    • Friday, 13 September, 2019
      Fashion
      Step into the weird and wonderful world of Tim Walker

      A new V&A exhibition shows how the photographer creates his surreal magic

    • Wednesday, 10 July, 2019
      V&A to stage biggest UK exhibition on Iranian art

      ‘Epic Iran’ will include 300 objects from 5,000 years of history at museum in London

    • Friday, 7 June, 2019
      FT SeriesThe next matter: the discovery of new materials for design
      Food: a new V&A exhibition serves up a sustainable future

      A V&A show offers a taste of new ways to make, consume and dispose of what we eat

    • Saturday, 10 November, 2018
      Watches & Jewellery
      Frida Kahlo: jewellery that paints a picture of an icon

      The V&A museum works with designers to create collections for artists’ exhibitions

    • Thursday, 1 November, 2018
      UK arts
      V&A masterpieces to go on display at its new museum in east London

      Highlights include work by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and stage backdrop for Ballet Russes

    • Tuesday, 23 October, 2018
      UK arts
      V&A to unveil leading collection of sculptural casts in restored gallery

      Cast Courts were created in the 19th century and comprise finest architectural treasures

    • Friday, 12 October, 2018
      Photography
      Thomas Ruff on image manipulation and why ‘photography is not stupid’

      The German artist unveils his latest series, a collabor­ation of sorts with the 19th-century photographer Linnaeus Tripe

    • Friday, 12 October, 2018
      Life & Arts
      V&A Photography Centre: a double exposure of art and institution

      The reworked space intriguingly embraces the camera as object, as well as images themselves

    • Friday, 14 September, 2018
      Life & Arts
      V&A’s colossal, curious new museum in Dundee

      How Kengo Kuma’s design for the new outpost was inspired by its Tayside setting

    • Wednesday, 12 September, 2018
      UK politics & policy
      Dundee opens V&A museum in bid to revive Scottish city

      V&A Dundee is centrepiece of £1bn redevelopment of the city’s notoriously ugly waterfront

    • Friday, 7 September, 2018
      FT SeriesLondon Design Special 2019
      London design special: what to see and where to see it 

      From pottery to poetry, dazzle camouflage to digitally printed leather

    • Friday, 7 September, 2018
      FT SeriesLondon Design Special 2019
      Gaming’s virtual architects

      How video games became a subject for design museums. And why they can also provide real-life solutions

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