Major Videogames exhibition opens at V&A
5 September 2018 • Mark Westall
Videogames: Design/ Play/ Disrupt celebrates the innovative and rapidly changing design field of videogames.
Tag: V&A
REVIEW: Frida Kahlo at the V&A
30 July 2018 • Lee Sharrock
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.
13 April 2018 • Mark Westall
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
17 September 2017 • Tabish Khan
Virtual reality, a festival, a multi-coloured maze, mountains, colour, abstract landscapes.
The Top 6 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
26 March 2017 • Tabish Khan
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
19 February 2017 • Tabish Khan
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
22 January 2017 • Tabish Khan
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
3 November 2016 • Staff
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
11 August 2016 • Syndicate
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
26 June 2016 • Tabish Khan
Botticelli, a sculpture garden, a disassembled car, other people’s shoes and war
The Top 6 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
17 April 2016 • Tabish Khan
Ancient Egypt, ravens, balance, humour, Fukushima and portraiture.
Botticelli Reimagined
18 March 2016 • Staff
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?
7 March 2016 • Syndicate
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
6 January 2016 • Paul Carey-Kent
There’s an unofficial festival of photography in Kensington just now.
Five of the best art exhibitions for Christmas 2015
9 December 2015 • Mark Westall
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
2 November 2015 • Mark Westall
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
20 September 2015 • Tabish Khan
This week’s top 6 includes architecture, bugs, balloons, philosophy, curiosities and dust
Botticelli Reimagined exhibition coming to V&A after opening in Berlin
27 August 2015 • Mark Westall
London show will feature modern artwork, fashion, film and music inspired by the Renaissance artist, as well as large collection of original Botticelli paintings
Tabish’s Top 5 at Photo London
21 May 2015 • Tabish Khan
My top 5 of Photo London contains an historical archive, landscapes, flowers, wild animals and day and night.
V&A to buy Cardinal Wolsey’s tomb angel statues
8 February 2015 • Mark Westall
Museum raises £5m for four bronze statues originally designed for tomb of Henry VIII’s disgraced former adviser
Tabish’s Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London over Christmas
22 December 2014 • Tabish Khan
This weeks top 5 features architectural photography, Rembrandt, Constable, witches and crashing waves.
89: 14 – A Street Style Journey An interactive exploration of Style in British Subcultures
2 December 2014 • Mark Westall
Come and dance on the largest surviving piece of The Haçienda’s legendary dancefloor, come and flick through a special selection of magazines from the “World’s Largest Collection of Magazines” in the Hyman Archive ‘Pop up Library’ AND get involved in the What We Wore live archive & bring photographs of your teen style or your bedroom wall to be digitised.
NYC FILM: ‘David Bowie Is’ Doc Headed to NYC!
22 September 2014 • Staff
Tomorrow, Sept 23, marks the US premiere of the new groundbreaking documentary, David Bowie Is. This extraordinary one-of-a-kind film… Read More
Tabish’s Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
18 August 2014 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan brings you five art exhibitions in London that you should visit during the week. Each one comes with a concise review to help you decide whether it’s for you.