Art
The Designs of Dissent
LONDON — Two inflatable cobblestones, outsized and dully metallic, hang from the ceiling. It’s implicit: these are material agents of anarchy, the airborne heralds of revolution.
Victoria and Albert Museum
News
Victoria & Albert Museum Devotes Gallery to Buzzy Objects
For better or for worse, museums tend to be behind the times, arbitrating culture from some kind of temporal remove. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is attempting to minimize that gap with a newly announced initiative called Rapid Response Collecting.
Art
The Delicate and Gruesome Art of Medieval Alabaster
The English Reformation of the 1530s wasn't just an upheaval of the country's spirituality as the Church of England severed its Catholic ties; it disrupted whole industries. One was the alabaster sculpture business of the Midlands.
Opinion
Museum Digitizes Entire Nazi "Degenerate Art" Inventory
The Victoria and Albert Museum published a remarkable document online today: the Nazis' inventory of "degenerate art" (entartete Kunst).
Art
Among the Period Rooms, a Failed Architect's Fictional Apartment
LONDON — At the 2009 Venice Biennale, Elmgreen & Dragset converted the Danish and Nordic Pavilions into the stylish home of a mysterious “Mr. B.” This fall, the artist duo did it again, with "Tomorrow" at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
News
Museums Beware: Thousands of Fake Louvre Tickets Discovered
China has become famous for its shanzhai culture of imitation, and now, to a long list of arty knockoffs that includes everything from iconic paintings to pop art, we can add museum tickets. Specifically, tickets to the Louvre.
Art
WTF Is…Haute Couture?
More often than ever the term “haute couture” pervades department stores, small-scale boutiques and celebrities’ clothing lines, but the appropriation of the term does not make it anything special.
Art
10 Fashion Museums to Visit Before You Die
Editors note: We reached out to Hyperallergic's fashion contributor Alexander Cavaluzzo to tell us the top ten must-see fashion museums around the world. Here are his picks.