7 August 2019 • Mark Westall
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.
17 April 2019 • Mark Westall
The V&A announces a new, long-term collaboration with Sir Elton John and David Furnish to revolutionise public access to photography.
14 November 2018 • Paul Carey-Kent
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.
18 October 2018 • Paul Carey-Kent
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.
12 September 2018 • Mark Westall
V&A Dundee opens its doors for the first time to the public on Saturday 15th September 2018. Today its beautiful, light-filled interiors designed by acclaimed Japanese architect Kengo Kuma have been revealed for the first time.
5 September 2018 • Mark Westall
Videogames: Design/ Play/ Disrupt celebrates the innovative and rapidly changing design field of videogames.
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.
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.
17 September 2017 • Tabish Khan
Virtual reality, a festival, a multi-coloured maze, mountains, colour, abstract landscapes.
26 March 2017 • Tabish Khan
Flying fish, an engulfing mist, Indian craft, VR Bjork, a pink glittery carpet, a skip and water.
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.
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
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.
11 August 2016 • Syndicate
Museum to celebrate career of pioneers who transformed live music with their dazzling light shows
26 June 2016 • Tabish Khan
Botticelli, a sculpture garden, a disassembled car, other people’s shoes and war
17 April 2016 • Tabish Khan
Ancient Egypt, ravens, balance, humour, Fukushima and portraiture.
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.
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
6 January 2016 • Paul Carey-Kent
There’s an unofficial festival of photography in Kensington just now.
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
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
20 September 2015 • Tabish Khan
This week’s top 6 includes architecture, bugs, balloons, philosophy, curiosities and dust
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
21 May 2015 • Tabish Khan
My top 5 of Photo London contains an historical archive, landscapes, flowers, wild animals and day and night.
