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    • Saturday, 9 September, 2023
      FT SeriesFT Magazine’s London design special 2023
      Palestinian artist Dima Srouji on creating ‘forgeries’ of V&A artefacts

      The museum invited her to respond to the collection. The resulting work raises difficult questions — obviously

    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      HTSI
      Chanel’s British muse

      A V&A retrospective uncovers one of the designer’s greatest passions

      Anne Gunning wears Chanel to marry Anthony Nutting in 1961
    • Monday, 26 June, 2023
      ReviewArchitecture
      Young V&A’s architectural overhaul is striking and joyful

      De Matos Ryan and AOC have brought both subtle clarity and cartoonish exuberance to the east London building

      Imagine an orange with individual segments removed, then lined with mirrors. This, but very large and at the top of a spiral staircase
    • Monday, 26 June, 2023
      Visual Arts
      Young V&A opens with children in the driving seat

      London’s former Museum of Childhood strikes the right balance between gallery and playcentre

      A young girl skips along the floor of a high-ceilinged brightly coloured gallery
    • Friday, 19 May, 2023
      Venice Architecture Biennale 2023
      This year’s Venice Architecture Biennale is brave, baffling, stimulating and essential

      Curator Lesley Lokko’s focus on Africa and its diaspora has inspired creative work — and few buildings

      People walk past and cluster under a dark pyramid-shaped building on a waterfront
    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
      Venice Architecture Biennale 2023
      Venice exhibition restores African architects to the story of Tropical Modernism

      The V&A shows how a ‘colonial’ style in fact always had diverse influences and practitioners

      A side-on view of a modernist building with washing hanging over many balconies
    • 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

      David Bowie during the Ziggy Stardust Tour in 1972-73
    • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
      ReviewVisual Arts
      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

      A bronze sculpture of a bearded man’s head, his eyes looking upward
    • Saturday, 6 August, 2022
      InterviewVisual Arts
      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

      Osman Yousefzada, lying on a purple-fabric daybed at the V&A in a grassy courtyard
    • 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

      Five models in a line wearing a mixture of brightly coloured outfits
    • Monday, 20 June, 2022
      The Art of FashionThe Art of Fashion: jewellery 2022
      Jewellery preservation — handle with care

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

      Turban ornament from the Mughal empire in white nephrite jade, gold inset with rubies, emeralds, topaz, with gold foil, rock crystal and pearl, 18th century
    • 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

      Portrait of Captain Gilbert Heathcote RN, 1801-05, by William Owen and Emmanuel wears Louis Vuitton wool coat, £4,450, leather blouson, £5,250, and leather tracksuit trousers, £4,850. Petit Bateau cotton T-shirt, £17. Lucy Barlow wool felt Uptown Rocker hat, POA. Port Tanger acetate Mektoub sunglasses, £240. Earring, stylist’s own
    • 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’

      Winston Churchill, chancellor of the exchequer, carries the despatch box in April 1929
    • 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’

      ‘Filthy Lucre’, Darren Waterston’s installation, a recreation of Whistler’s ‘Peacock Room’
    • 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

      "Tim Walker, Karen Elson, Dolly and 'Scissors Boy'." "Fashion: Givenchy Haute Couture. London, 2008 © Tim Walker Studio"
    • 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

      Detached folio from an illuminated manuscript of the Shahnameh for Shah Tahmasp. The Sarikhani Collection V&A 2020 exhibition highlights
    • 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

      NC18 Collection, Sensory Dessert Spoon(2012-) Front Volume R © 2018. Stimuli by Jinhyun Jeon
    • 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

      internal render view of gallery dedicated to the changing display of large rolled objects in the new V&A collection and research centre at Here East, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, 2018 Render shows Natalia Goncharova’s Backcloth Design for the Finale of ‘L’Oiseau de Feu’ (The Firebird), c.1926 © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London / Diller Scofidio + Renfro, 2018
    • 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

      3. Conservator working on Trajan's Column © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Rope Access down inside trajan’s column for a condition survey, conservation work around the cast courts, Roofline photography of Cast courts.
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