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V&A

July 2024

  • Former Tory party chair Ben Elliot was rumoured to be Downing Street’s favourite candidate for the V&A chair.

    ‘Political’ search for new V&A chair mired in accusations of cronyism

    Coveted post at London arts institution tainted by process widened to include the Cabinet Office and Downing Street
  • Section of the 12th-century carving, which depicts Joseph of Arimathea lifting Christ’s body from the cross

    Rare early medieval ivory carving acquired for £2m by V&A

    Revered 12th-century sculpture of Christ to stay in UK museum after successful fundraising

    • Young V&A wins Museum of the Year award

    • From Shakespeare’s lost plays to the world’s oldest horse: the bumper Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024 quiz

    • Taylor Swift clothes to be displayed at free V&A show this summer

June 2024

  • Naomi Campbell at the press launch for the V&A's upcoming Naomi: In Fashion exhibition accompanied by mannikins wearing designer dresses

    Naomi: in Fashion – lighthearted V&A show celebrates the supermodel

    The exhibition brings together some of Naomi Campbell’s most stunning outfits, many from her own collection
  • Naomi Campbell in a glittery black sleeveless top

    ‘When you fall, you pick yourself up’: Naomi Campbell on her V&A exhibition

    London show illustrates 40-year career of first Black British model to front British Vogue, spanning fashion, culture and politics
  • Freedom Hunters (1977) by Gavin Jantjes.

    To see work by many black artists, go to the V&A

    Letters: Rosemary Haworth-Booth on how she started acquiring works in the late 1980s, when other galleries failed to take an interest

May 2024

  • David LaChapelle, Elton John: Egg On His Face, New York, 1999

    Fragile Beauty review – Elton John and David Furnish’s photo collection goes from basic to brutal

    From glossy celebrity portraits through raw news shots to AI-driven abstracts, this epic show captures half a century of iconic images

April 2024

  • Interior of the National Portrait Gallery, featuring glass roof and people looking at paintings.

    Revamped National Portrait Gallery among contenders for museum of the year

    Shortlist dominated by institutions that have undergone extensive renovations, including Young V&A and Manchester Museum

March 2024

  • Diorama Map, Dundee by Sohei Nishino

    Eye in the sky: the photographer who used 20,000 photos to make an epic collage map of Dundee

  • Palais Galliera in Paris, mounts a retrospective of fashion photographer Paolo Roversi (pictured with Claire Foy in 2020).

    Fashion Statement newsletter
    From Barbie to Naomi to Paolo Roversi, the style shows you have to see

  • Naomi Campbell in a grey suit next to a beaded dress

    Naomi Campbell ‘stressed out’ as V&A tickets for show in her honour go on sale

  • High Court Projected by architect Le Corbusier Chandigarh

    Tropical Modernism review – a complex story of power, freedom, craft… and cows

February 2024

  • Black Star Square, Accra.

    Post-colonial party pads! The architects who got Ghana back in the groove

  • Swifties trade beaded bracelets at the first night of the Eras tour in Melbourne in February.

    V&A museum seeks Swiftie to advise on Taylor Swift fan culture

January 2024

  • for Linda Parry obituary The Forest tapestry, wool, silk and cotton, designed by William Morris, Philip Webb and John Henry Dearle, woven by William Knight, John Martin and William Sleath, 1887. Purchased with Art Fund support.

    Linda Parry obituary

    Museum curator and expert on the textiles of William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement
  • Part of the Asante gold collection on its way back to Ghana.

    V&A’s ‘return’ of looted Ghana gold is a new way to tackle Britain’s painful past

    Tristram Hunt
    A loan deal for the Asante treasures offers a golden opportunity for cultural exchange, argues the museum’s director
  • An Asante head-dress

    British Museum and V&A to lend Ghana looted gold and silver

    Objects to go on show at the Manhyia Palace Museum in Kumasi as part of Asante king’s silver jubilee celebrations

December 2023

  • BALENCIAGA S01E05 (1957-60) 30082022 DavidHerranz V3A9045

    ‘They have caused chaos, gone viral and created a sellout buzz’: the rise and fall of fashion house Balenciaga

    The brand Cristóbal Balenciaga began is now known for being controversial. But, as the miniseries reveals, the elegant Spaniard also liked to push boundaries
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