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3 weeks ago | 
fuckingyoung.es | Gabriel Córdoba Acosta |Albert Museum
British fashion house Burberry continues to develop as usual its commitment to the world of art and culture, and as proof of this is its latest action, the support for the renovation of the Fashion Gallery of the iconic Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington (London-UK).
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
jewellermagazine.com | Pablo Cimadevila |Albert Museum |Samuel Ord |Arabella Roden
Now Showing: Restoration of a burnt Rolex Datejust; What's inside the largest diamond mine in the world; and a brief history of powerful gemstone amulets Posted October 25, 2024 | Take a few moments to enjoy Jeweller's Friday Flicks video selection including updates on current affairs and insights into the jewellery trade.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
elperiodico.com | Anna Abella |Albert Museum
Los surrealistas y extraordinarios mundos de Alicia en el País de las Maravillas, el violento dinamismo de las pinturas de Rubens y la convulsa Alemania de entreguerras de la República de Weimar serán los platos fuertes de CaixaForum Barcelona en la nueva y potente temporada expositiva a la que se suma la atractiva muestra sobre extraterrestres como propuesta estrella de CosmoCaixa.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
advisor.museumsandheritage.com | Alistair Hardaker |Albert Museum
More than 30 items of gold and silver from the collections of the V&A and the British Museum are to be returned to Ghana following a long-term loan agreement. In total 17 items from the V&A collection and 15 items from the British Museum are to be loaned to the Manhyia Palace Museum, located within the palace complex of the Asantehene in Kumasi, Ghana, under separate three-year agreements.
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Jan 1, 2024 | 
allevents.in | Albert Museum
Join V&A curator Connie Karol Burks as she discusses Gabrielle Chanel’s subtly subversive approach to fashioning gender, class, and luxury in her designs. The talk will explore how Chanel’s biography and the social context of her time informed her radical use of materials and key elements of her design aesthetic throughout her sixty-year career. Connie is Curator of Textiles and Fashion since 1900 at the V&A Museum.
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Oct 29, 2023 | 
downthetubes.net | John Freeman |Albert Museum
Take an exciting and atmospheric trip through Japan – and explore how landscape and folklore have influenced Japanese art, technology and design, with the Japan: Myths to Manga Exhibition at the Young Victoria and Albert Museum in East London.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
inkl.com | Albert Museum
Marking the first time that a UK exhibition has been dedicated entirely to Chanel, it charts the designer’s humble beginnings in the Loire Valley of France through to the establishment of her eponymous brand and the evolution of her creations throughout the years. Incorporating gowns, suits, jewellery, fragrances and accessories, the exhibition features more than 50 of the designer’s famous tweed suits alongside several fragile pieces usually stored deep within the belly of the V&A’s archive.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
advisor.museumsandheritage.com | Alistair Hardaker |Albert Museum
The V&A is to display four ancient carved stone items from Yemen, discovered by the Metropolitan Police in a London shop, which are thought to have been illegally looted. The Metropolitan Police discovered the carved stone funerary stelae, likely dating from the second half of the first millennium BCE, in an interior design shop following a tip from a member of the public.
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Aug 30, 2023 | 
spectator.co.uk | Tristram Hunt |Albert Museum
Text size Small Medium Large Line Spacing Compact Normal Spacious Comments There are few better locations to resist la rentrée than the wilds of Exmoor. The late August heather and gorse. The hidden coves. The bracken and this year’s superb crop of blackberries. Then the rain. So much rain (though of course the reliably incompetent South West Water still has a hosepipe ban in place). The only blot on the landscape remains Damien Hirst’s ill-conceived 65ft statue of ‘Verity’ – a flayed...
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Jul 2, 2023 | 
mistertravel.news | Albert Museum
Londres a une nouvelle adresse très intéressante pour ceux qui voyagent en famille, et elle porte une signature décidément importante. En effet, le Young V&A, ou le Victoria and Albert Museum entièrement dédié aux enfants et adolescents, est sur le point d’ouvrir ses portes. Et qui, comme la déjà célèbre, sera gratuite, sauf pour les expositions spéciales.
