Grayson Perry's timely pair of vases depicting Brexit, one leave the other remain go on permanent display in the V&A’s Ceramics Galleries from today. Created in 2017 in response to the vast social and political rift caused by Brexit, each vase depicts supporters...
Illuminated by undulating light from the Firth of Tay, and set against a Scottish blue sky - the V&A Dundee is Scotland's impressive new design museum, and recently Artlyst - and the rest of the world's press - were given the opportunity to explore the city's new...
Video Games Rule! The Victoria and Albert Museum has just opened a large, ambitious exhibition devoted to video games. It's their first venture into this field and is very appropriately titled Design/Play/Disrupt. The last of these three words are the key. There are...
The public opening of the V&A Dundee, takes place on Saturday 15 September. Details of the opening were announced, last month. Artlyst was lucky enough to get a sneak preview via drone technology and a site visit! Legendary Scottish band Primal Scream will lead...
Frida Kahlo's life is so interwoven with her art that there is little separation. Her biography is well-known, and so is her image. The brightly dressed artist in traditional Mexican clothes with her prominent monobrow. The pain and suffering she endured first through...
Back in 2017, we wrote that John Glen the UK’s Arts Minister had placed a temporary export bar on an iconic Salvador Dalí and Edward James designed sofa known as ‘Mae West Lips’. Well, now we can announce that the initiative has found funds to keep the Surealist work...
The V&A has announced a major gift of 63 photographs by Linda McCartney, generously gifted by Paul McCartney and his family. The photographs trace Linda McCartney’s career across four decades, from the 1960s to the 1990s. The collection encompasses portraits of...
The V&A has announced that Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge has agreed to become Royal Patron to the Museum. The patronage reflects Her Royal Highness’s continued personal interest in the visual arts, photography and design. The V&A has enjoyed a...
V&A staff have new uniforms designed by the British fashion designer Christopher Raeburn. Sorry, Tristram, you could have done much better! You are in fact a museum with a well-respected fashion collection! This collection of ill-fitting shell suits would be more...