V&A shares over 1.2m objects as it revolutionises digital access to its collection.
For the first time, Explore the Collections brings together data, stories, images and content about the V&A’s vast and fascinating collection in one place.
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V&A to host a week-long celebration of Glastonbury
Starting today, the V&A is hosting a seven-day online celebration of all things Glastonbury. Coinciding with the weekend when the world-famous festival was due to celebrate its 50th year, the V&A has delved into its collections and asked for contributions from its curators to help fill your festival void.
Five highlights from Tim Walker: Wonderful Things
Tim Walker: Wonderful Things invites visitors into the fantastical imagination of Tim Walker, one of the world’s most inventive photographers.
V&A to collaborate with Borough Market for one day sustainable food pop-up
On 14th August, two of London’s most iconic destinations – the V&A and Borough Market – will collaborate to showcase innovative sustainable food growing techniques.
The V&A announces a new, long-term collaboration with Sir Elton John and David Furnish to revolutionise public access to photography.
The V&A announces a new, long-term collaboration with Sir Elton John and David Furnish to revolutionise public access to photography.
Frida the Modern
How does a painter currently making her way respond to the life and work of Frida Kahlo? I attended the V&A’s ‘Making Herself Up’ with Emma Cousin whose paintings recently made a splash at Edel Assanti gallery.
CLOUDS AT THE V&A
The Victoria & Albert Museum’s re-presentation of its photography collection in a newly opened ‘Photography Centre’ strikes a nice balance between image and information, method and content, historic development and contemporary relevance.
Major Videogames exhibition opens at V&A
Videogames: Design/ Play/ Disrupt celebrates the innovative and rapidly changing design field of videogames.
REVIEW: Frida Kahlo at the V&A
With Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up, the first exhibition outside Mexico featuring previously unseen clothes and belongings alongside paintings and photographs, the V&A has another blockbuster on its hands.
The Smithsonian is coming to London.
The Smithsonian Institute is teaming up with the Victoria and Albert Museum to be part of the £850 million ($1.1 billion) Olympicopolis arts hub. The plan is to loan Smithsonian artifacts to the London museum for a co-branded, co-curated gallery at the V&A East, and for the institute also to organise temporary exhibitions for the space.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see this week in London
Virtual reality, a festival, a multi-coloured maze, mountains, colour, abstract landscapes.
The Top 6 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
Flying fish, an engulfing mist, Indian craft, VR Bjork, a pink glittery carpet, a skip and water.
The Top 6 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
The swinging 60s, the aftermath of a dystopian Christmas party, the surveillance state, beautiful portraits, a nation’s history and an algorithm on trial.
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
Art critic Tabish Khan brings you the top art exhibitions to visit this week. Each one comes with a concise… Read More
MozEx: celebrating open internet, technology and creativity through digital art
MozEx an exhibition of digital art – spread out across all nine floors of Ravensbourne in Greenwich. Curated by the digital learning teams at Tate and V&A.
Pink Floyd’s psychedelic revolution will rock the V&A
Museum to celebrate career of pioneers who transformed live music with their dazzling light shows
The Top 5 Exhibitions to see in London this week
Botticelli, a sculpture garden, a disassembled car, other people’s shoes and war
The Top 6 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
Ancient Egypt, ravens, balance, humour, Fukushima and portraiture.
Botticelli Reimagined
When walking into an exhibition about Sandro Botticelli one of the last things you would expect to encounter is a clip from Dr. No.
Damien Hirst and Picasso: coming soon to a National Gallery near you?
Gabriele Finaldi is right. The Tate shouldn’t have exclusive access to 20th-century art. It’s time to end these closed-minded historical art wars
There’s an unofficial festival of photography in Kensington just now: Paul’s ART STUFF ON A TRAIN #145
There’s an unofficial festival of photography in Kensington just now.
Five of the best art exhibitions for Christmas 2015
Wonder at Botticini’s Paradise, see Turner’s bracing vistas in Edinburgh, and explore the roots of the European winter festival at the V&A
V&A brings Japanese craftsmanship back to life for gallery reopening
From 700-year-old swords and 19th-century ‘living doll’ to Hello Kitty cooker, army of conservators have painstaking revived museum collection
Tabish’s Top 6 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
This week’s top 6 includes architecture, bugs, balloons, philosophy, curiosities and dust