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Victoria and Albert Museum

Posted inArt

The V&A Wanted to Subvert Toxic Masculinity but Ended Up Reinforcing It

Avatar photo by Olivia McEwan October 23, 2022October 21, 2022

The exhibition Fashioning Masculinities lets men have their cake and eat it too.

Posted inNews

London’s V&A Museum Finally Drops the Sackler Name

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia and Jasmine Liu October 3, 2022October 4, 2022

But a museum in Harvard is still named after a member of the disgraced family, notorious for its role in the opioid crisis.

Posted inNews

Europe’s Extreme Heat Waves Bring Art to a Standstill

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie July 20, 2022July 22, 2022

A floating art project can’t reach Documenta because the Weser River is too low and museums in the UK shutter galleries to keep workers and collections cool.

Posted inNews

Museums Partner to Establish Palestine’s First Textile Conservation Studio

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia March 13, 2022March 11, 2022

The Palestinian Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum received a $480,000 grant to conserve Palestinian textiles.

Posted inOpinion

How is This Possibly the Right Time for a Fabergé Show at the V&A?

Avatar photo by Olivia McEwan December 2, 2021December 2, 2021

So legendarily precious and complex are the Fabergé eggs that they have become a byword for insane expenditure.

Posted inNews

In Its First UK Action, PAIN Sackler Holds “Die-in” at the V&A

Avatar photo by Naomi Polonsky November 18, 2019November 18, 2019

Warning of “toxic philanthropy,” activists gathered in the museum’s Sackler Courtyard, honoring the five people who die every day in the UK from opioid overdoses.

Posted inIn Brief

Objects by Climate Activists Go on Display at Victoria and Albert Museum

by Hakim Bishara July 29, 2019

The museum acquired a selection of flags, prints, and designs by Extinction Rebellion, a recently formed environmental activist group, for its permanent collection.

Posted inNews

An Art Historian Says Leonardo da Vinci’s Only Known Sculpture Is in London’s V&A Museum

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne February 12, 2019

The new attribution reignites a century-long debate over the authorship of “The Virgin with the Laughing Child,” a Renaissance-era statuette currently attributed to Antonio Rossellino.

Posted inNews

Why the Victoria & Albert Museum Is Expanding to East London and Beyond

Avatar photo by Zachary Small November 5, 2018November 5, 2018

The financial logic behind the British institution’s massive expansion project from east London to Scotland is certainly ambitious, but is it sound?

Posted inIn Brief

A Frida Kahlo Exhibition Will Open for an Uninterrupted 48 Hours in London

Avatar photo by Jasmine Weber October 11, 2018October 11, 2018

The event, which costs £17 (~$22), might not have sat well with the communist painter.

Posted inNews

Ethiopia Calls on London Museum to Repatriate Objects Looted 150 Years Ago [UPDATED]

by Claire Voon April 23, 2018April 24, 2018

The call, by Ethiopia’s ambassador for the UK, followed a suggestion earlier this month by the director of the Victoria & Albert Museum that the objects could be given on long-term loan.

Posted inArt

Photographers Among the Trees, from Steichen to Bae Bien-U

by Barry Nemett March 31, 2018April 2, 2018

An exhibition at London’s V&A captures the dance in life’s stillness and the stillness in life’s dance.

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