Tag: Victoria and Albert Museum

  • 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

  • V&A Dundee opens: a monumental structure that aims to take the city under its wing

    Kengo Kuma has delivered a new landmark in the V&A Dundee. It is a craggy sculptural structure inspired by the city’s shipbuilding past and Scotland’s rugged cliffs, which Kuma hopes will reconnect the city with nature. Inside, he has crafted…

  • Frida Kahlo: Making Herself Up

    This exhibition offers a lesson in why you shouldn’t feed popular morbid curiosity at the expense of respect for the person behind the legend. Nevertheless, Frida Kahlo’s paintings still shine out from amid the costumes, prosthetics and pill packets

  • Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt

    As the V&A this week opens an exhibition that celebrates groundbreaking innovations in video game design, its curator, Marie Foulston, discusses the medium’s radical development over the past 20 years, and why now is the right time for a show…

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment, Design

    No major painter in the history of art has a surviving corpus of paintings smaller than that of Leonardo da Vinci. Only a handful of paintings remain, some unfinished, some of disputed attribution, and at least one of the most…

  • Pallant House Gallery, Chichester

    Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh 14 July-5 November 2006 ‘Beyond the Palace Walls: Islamic Art from the State Hermitage Museum’ is a very timely collaboration for the Edinburgh Festival 2006 between the Royal Museum in Edinburgh and the State Hermitage…

  • Diane Arbus: Revelations

    Diane Arbus’s first retrospective exhibit in 1972 – several months after her suicide – shocked the public while mythologising the artist.

  • Bill Brandt: A Centenary Retrospective

    Victoria and Albert Museum, London 24 March-25 July 2004