Hollywood Costume, the V&A’s major autumn exhibition, is major indeed. This is the sort of blockbuster show that delivers what many museums only imagine possible. It is curated by Hollywood costume designer and senior guest curator Deborah Nadoolman Landis,...
The BFI and the V&A jointly announced today that the BFI’s major collection of over 500 film costumes is being transferred to the V&A. This will establish a new area of collecting for the Museum and a closer working relationship between the two...
I'll get you my pretty and your little dog too! The original Ruby Slippers worn by Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) in The Wizard of Oz (1939) are to go on public display in Europe for the first time in history as part of the V&A’s major autumn exhibition,...
The V&A is set to honour the musician David Bowie with an exhibition of his spectacular stage costumes, sometime in the new year. Bowie will help to curate the exhibition with many of the costumes loaned from the mega-star's personal collection.The show will...
The V&A is currently presenting an exhibition of the Heatherwick Studios, the team behind the design of the spectacular Olympic Caldron, which took the world by storm last night at the opening of the 2012 Olympics.On 29 July, a smaller model of Thomas...
Eighteen museums and art heritage sites have been awarded Catalyst: Endowments funding to court money from private philanthropic sources. Thirty-four organisations around the country have been awarded Endowment grants of between £500,000 and £5...
In honour of the new special exhibition opening today, Heatherwick Studio: Designing the Extraordinary, the V&A commissioned a temporary installation surrounding the main entrance of the building. The façade of the Victoria & Albert Museum is...
With the eyes of the world upon us for London 2012, the V&A celebrates all things British 2012 is Britain’s year. With the eyes of the world upon the capital this Summer, it is perhaps the great chance of 21st Century to showcase and celebrate this...
Review of Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn (Ceramic Works, 5000 BC – AD 2010) at the V&AHaving just been named third in Time magazine’s Person of the Year, there has never been a better time for this exhibition of Ai Weiwei’s ceramics. Oddly,...