‘Larger than life’: Tina Turner outfits to star in V&A’s Diva exhibition
Immersive show includes talk by late singer’s designer Bob Mackie as well as items worn by Prince and Elton John
May 2023
‘Rural life is being written out’: Gauri Gill on photographing India’s forgotten people
Eruptions, explosions and a sexually explicit hoover: V&A Photography Centre review
April 2023
Recognition at last for male divas. But if Elton John qualifies, why not Drake – or Kendall Roy?
Rachel Aroesti
V&A’s Diva show uses costumes and artefacts to celebrate female creativity
March 2023
V&A Chanel exhibition to feature 200 looks across seven decades
Blockbuster to include origin story of famous tweed suit and not gloss over controversial wartime past
Runner-up: Observer/Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism 2023 – Cerise Louisa Andrews on Hallyu! The Korean Wave
V&A, London This wide-ranging celebration of South Korean culture is a psychedelic experience where future and tradition jostle
Museums should take their art on the road
Letters: The whole country should have access to prestigious collections based in London, says David Kennedy, while Pete James and Peter and Christine Nias remember mobile museums in South Yorkshire and Namibia respectively
February 2023
Watch that man: V&A lands huge archive of David Bowie memorabilia
Donatello review – the Robert Mapplethorpe of the Renaissance
Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance – a once-in-a-lifetime show
Was Donatello the first artist in history to express a queer identity?
January 2023
The Guardian view on the Benin bronzes: leading the way home
Editorial: The swelling international tide in favour of returning looted artefacts cannot be ignored by Britain’s national museums
December 2022
2023 culture preview
The best art and design shows to visit in 2023
Queer Renaissance sculptor Donatello, Marina Abramović, David Hockney and a long-delayed mega-museum in Manchester – your art-design to-do list for the year ahead
October 2022
Donatello’s David sculpture to go on display in UK for first time
Renaissance artist’s famous marble to form part of V&A exhibition exploring his cultural impact
Re:Imagining Musicals at the V&A celebrates the fantastical, famous and forgotten
Costumes, props, posters and archive video footage all feature in an expansive exhibition that leaves you itching to see some shows again
Robert Skelton obituary
V&A puts musical theatre centre-stage in new exhibition
V&A drops financial ties with Sackler family over links with opioids
September 2022
Hallyu! The Korean Wave review – a dazzling historical remix
This gleeful, giddy celebration of the culture of South Korea ranges from fashion to fine art and grand guignol to Gangnam style
