Tag: V&A

  • Thomas J Price at the V&A

    His sculptures, fusions of ordinary people, overturn tradition in their material and scale, challenging our preconceptions and prejudices about Black people in visual culture

  • Plastic: Remaking Our World

    Dundee’s V&A Design explores the fascinating history of this miraculous but now highly controversial material, and considers how we can rehabilitate it

  • Hello, Robot: Design Between Human and Machine

    From Star Wars’ R2-D2 to a machine that produces compassionate messages for the dying, this is a celebration of robots that also asks timely questions about how we interact with machines, and how we should design our shared future

  • Balenciaga: Shaping fashion

    The V&A presents an exhibition exploring the abstract and architectural shapes of Cristóbal Balenciaga’s work in the 1950s and 60s, drawing out connections between his legacy and contemporary fashion designers

  • From Gucci to Gaultier: London hosts two major fashion exhibitions

    This month sees the opening in London of two major fashion exhibitions: The Glamour of Italian Fashion 1945-2014 at the V&A, and The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk at the Barbican.

  • V & A

    Mark Jones was the perfect choice to run the V & A; he had successfully masterminded the new building for the Museum of Scotland before he left, and he appears undaunted by the challenge of the brilliant Libeskind spiral, as…

  • Baroque World: Baroque 1620-1800: Style in the Age of Magnificence, V&A, London 2009.

    Baroque 1620–1800: Style in the Age of Magnificence Victoria and Albert Museum, London 4 April–19 July 2009.

  • Art Deco at V&A

    The Victoria and Albert Museum will open a sequel to its successful Art Nouveau show, held in 2000, with Art Deco 1910-1939 on 27 March through 20 July. Drawing upon the wealth of material from the 1920s, a period that…

  • Libeskind advances

    Daniel Libeskind has, despite delays over the brilliant spiral proposals for the Victoria and Albert Museum, been moving forward during the long preliminary. First the Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabruck, then the meteoric Jewish Museum in Berlin. Now approaching completion…