3 May 2018
Linda McCartney Photographs Gifted To V&A By Husband Paul
The V&A has announced a major gift of 63 photographs by Linda McCartney, generously gifted by Paul McCartney and his family.
24 April 2018
24 April 2018
27 March 2018
Duchess of Cambridge Becomes V&A Museum’s First Royal Patron
The V&A has announced that Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge has agreed to become Royal Patron to the Museum.
9 March 2018
Frida Kahlo Estate Raises A Monobrow To Artist Barbie Doll
Relatives of the estate of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo are considering suing the Frida Kahlo Corporation over claims it holds the rights to her image.
27 December 2017
Winnie-the-Pooh Celebrated In Largest Ever V&A Exhibition
Winnie-the-Pooh is celebrated in a new exhibition at the V&A in London. For the first time in nearly 40 years this December as part of the UK’s largest ever exhibition on Winnie-the-Pooh, A.A. Milne, and E.H. Shepard. Winnie-the-Pooh: Exploring a Classic will be a multi-sensory, playful exhibition that will explore the magical world of Winnie-the-Pooh – one of the most adored fictional characters of all time.
Dr. Martin Roth Former Director Of London’s V&A Dies Aged 62
Dr. Martin Roth the former director of the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) has died age 62. He recently stepped down after five years at the helm.
31 July 2017
The Golden Age Of Ocean Liners Explored In New V&A Exhibition
The golden age of ocean travel will be explored in a major new exhibition, Ocean Liners: Speed & Style, Co-organised by the V&A in London
2 May 2017
Amanda Levete To Unveil V&A’s Largest Architectural Intervention For 100 Years
V&A’s Exhibition Road Quarter designed by the Stirling Prize-winning British architect Amanda Levete and her practice AL_A unveiled
27 April 2017
V&A Announces DesignLab Nation National Programme To Support Design Education
The Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) have announced DesignLab Nation, a national programme to support design education for 11 to 16-year-olds, working with regional museums. It will use the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2016 prize money to fund an ambitious national schools programme, DesignLab Nation, to help revive art and design education in secondary schools.
18 March 2017
Rachel Whiteread Village Installation Given Permanent Home At V&A MOC
Rachel Whiteread’s celebrated artwork Place (Village) (2006-2008) will go on permanent display at the V&A Museum of Childhood
The Smithsonian Announce Plans Of Joint Venture With London’s V&A
The Smithsonian in Washington has officially announced plans to cooperate with London’s Victoria and Albert Museum on a major international joint venture in London. The proposed site situated in front of the London Aquatics Centre and a few hundred yards from the former Olympic Stadium. The permanent gallery space will become part of V&A East, a cultural complex created in Queen […]
V&A’s Bizarre Decision To Ban All Sketching At Undressed Is Pants
I know I’m a little late to the party here but several people have been asking me what I make of the V&A’s bizarre decision to ban all sketching at its exhibition on underwear. I’m perhaps not as outraged as some are at it, as I do harbour a controversial view that sketching in art galleries […]
3 March 2016
Botticelli Appropriated: The Art Of Recycling Old Masters By Their Disciples – Reveiw
Not long after the National Gallery’s opening of Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art, here is another exhibition showing an iconic artist’s influence on subsequent generations. However, unlike the Delacroix, with Botticelli Reimagined at the Victoria and Albert Museum the very title suggests what to expect and so there is no disappointment involved. At […]
1960s Revolutionary Attitudes And Impact Explored In New V&A Exhibition
A new V&A exhibition sets out to explore the era-defining significance and impact of the late 1960s upon life today. From global civil rights, multiculturalism, environmentalism, consumerism, computing, communality to neoliberalist politics, the world we live in has been vitally influenced by five revolutionary years 1966 – 70. You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels […]
Paul Strand: First UK Exhibition In 30 Years Mounted By V&A
The V&A are presenting the first retrospective of the American photographer Paul Strand (1890-1976) in the UK for over 30 years. Revered as one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century, Strand defined the way fine art and documentary photography is understood and practiced today. Part of a tour organised by Philadelphia Museum of Art, […]
V&A Undresses The Top Layer To Expose The Undergarment In New Exhibition
The V&A has announced a new exhibition which traces the story of underwear design from the 18th century to the present day, considering the practical and personal, sensory and fashionable and exploring underwear’s roles of protecting and enhancing the body. Undressed: A Brief History of Underwear will display more than 200 examples of underwear for men and women, […]
Julia Margaret Cameron Bicentenary Photo Exhibition Set To Open At V&A
‘I write to ask you if you will… exhibit at the South Kensington Museum a set of Prints of my late series of Photographs that I intend should electrify you with delight and startle the world’ –Julia Margaret Cameron to Henry Cole, 21 February 1866 To mark the bicentenary of the birth of Julia Margaret Cameron […]
Iron Lady Thatcher’s Castoffs Go Under The Hammer After V&A Snub
Cast offs from the Collection of The Right Honourable Baroness Thatcher are to be offered by Christies after being rejected as a potential gift by the V&A, a story in today’s Daily Telegraph reports. In the year that ‘The Iron Lady’ would have celebrated her 90th birthday, approximately 350 personal lots will be offered across two landmark […]
V&A Unveil New Installation By Indian Artist Subodh Gupta
A major new installation by leading Indian contemporary artist Subodh Gupta has been unveiled at he V&A. When Soak Becomes Spill. The work, created especially for the South Kensington Museum, as part of the India Festival, features a stainless steel bucket standing six metres high and overflowing with hundreds of pots, pans, containers and cooking implements. The […]
New Contemporary Installation Commissioned For V&A’s Europe 1600-1815 Galleries
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has announced that its Europe 1600–1815 galleries will open on 9 December following a £12.5 million restoration, with £4.75 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The project was delayed due to a “complicated build”, according to a museum spokesman. The new display of over 1,100 artefacts, from the […]
Grayson Perry, Julian Opie Respond To The Idea Of Portraiture At V&A
This summer the V&A presents Facing History: Contemporary Portraiture, a display of 80 prints and photographs drawn from the V&A’s collection that explores the variety of artists’ responses to the idea of portraiture over the last 20 years. On display is the work by over 20 artists including Julian Opie, Grayson Perry, Thomas Ruff, Maud […]
C.A. Halpin: Two New Multimedia London Exhibitions Announced
C.A. Halpin will be the featured artist in two new multimedia exhibitions in London this summer and again in January 2016. Expect large-scale drawings, sculpture, music performance and projections, depicting children carrying heavy objects – from bricks and bags to water and each other. It’s A Hard World For Little Things’ comprises two exhibitions, […]
What is Luxury? Seemingly Disparate Objects Juxtaposed In New Exhibition
What is Luxury? a new exhibition at the V&A will present exceptional examples of contemporary design and craftsmanship alongside conceptual projects which interrogate fundamental ideas of luxury, its production and future. From a diamond made from roadkill to a vending machine stocked with DNA, a golden crown for ecclesiastical use to traditional military tailoring, over 100 objects will address how luxury is […]
Alexander McQueen Savage Queuety Opens To The British Public
The highly anticipated Alexander McQueen exhibition ‘Savage Beauty’ will finally be opening its doors to the public this weekend after an appeal by fans to mount the show here in London, following its startling successful run at New York’s Metropolitan Museum. It just goes to show that something as British as McQueen’s designs are universal […]
Wolsey Angels Saved for the Nation By Heritage Memorial Fund
The recovery of Wolsey’s angels is one of those miracles that historians pray for; something that seems irrevocably lost has been there all the time. To claim the angels for the nation would connect us to one of the liveliest eras of our history and one of its most remarkable men.” – Hilary Mantel The […]
V&A In Self-Censorship Row After Muhammad Image Is Removed
The Victoria & Albert Museum has removed from its website the image of an artwork depicting the prophet Muhammad, the Guardian reports. The decision to remove the image was triggered by growing security concerns, following the terrorist attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which was targeted for publishing caricatures of the Prophet. The move […]
Extreme Footwear Explored In Shoes Pleasure And Pain Exhibition At V&A
The transformative power of extreme footwear will be explored in the V&A’s summer 2015 fashion exhibition, Shoes: Pleasure and Pain. More than 200 pairs of historic and contemporary shoes from around the world will be on display, many for the first time. The exhibition will explore the agonizing aspect of wearing shoes as well as […]
Plaster Casters: V&A Relaunch Cast Court First Opened In 1873
The V&A have announced the re-launch of the newly refurbished Italian sculpture Cast Court. Measuring 24 metres in height, the two galleries house some of the V&A’s largest objects and are among the most visited galleries in the museum. Collecting plaster cast reproductions and electrotypes reached the height of popularity in the mid to late […]