‘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...
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Baroness Thatcher V&A Snub Denied By New Museum Chairman
We reported on Tuesday that cast offs from the collection of The Right Honourable Baroness Thatcher were to be offered by Christies after being rejected as a potential gift by the V&A. This information was based on a story in the Daily Telegraph. Now the...
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...
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...
Dundee’s V&A Museum Project: Costs Double To £80m
Dundee's V&A museum has come under fire for the way the costs, originally estimated at £45 m for the project were allowed to double. It has now concluded that it will carry an £80m plus price tag and the costing was not...
Alexander McQueen Crowned The Most Popular Exhibition In V&A History
More than 480,000 people visited Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty at the V&A, making it the most visited paid-for exhibition at the Museum ever. The exhibition was the only major UK retrospective of the work of the visionary fashion designer Lee Alexander McQueen,...
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...
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...
Sterling Hundley Named Winner of the V&A Illustration Awards 2015
Sterling Hundley a talented designer nominated for his series of illustrations for classic novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (commissioned by The Folio Society) has won the V&A Illustration Awards 2015. The judging...