Features

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  Opera set design

  A much starker approach to opera design is seen in acclaimed artist Derek Jarman's marbled paper and…
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  Fashion in Motion: Eden Loweth x Maggi Hambling 

  The shows will be held in tribute to the late filmmaker Derek Jarman, who was both a great friend of…
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  V&A trail: Out in the museum

  Stop 11: Set model for Don Giovanni, by Derek Jarman, 1968Map link: Theatre & Performance, Room 104…

Collections

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  Opera

  Highlights include set designs by Derek Jarman, costumes by David Hockney, music scores by George Frederick…

Objects

What's On

• Past Event

  Fashion in Motion: Eden Loweth x Maggi Hambling

  V&A South Kensington

  They will be held in tribute to the late Derek Jarman, who was both a great friend of Hambling and a…
• Past Event

  Unearthly

  V&A South Kensington

  Originally inspired by Derek Jarman’s film

  Blue

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  Unearthly

  is a dance-based…

From the Blog

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  Blog Post

  Queer Photobooks in the Photography Centre browsing library

  In Prospect Cottage, photographed and written by Gilbert McCarragher, a neighbour and friend of Derek…
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  Blog Post

  Miles Aldridge in conversation

  This was in the mid 1980s, the period of Derek Jarman whose Super 8 films were so inspiring.…
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  Blog Post

  Secrets of the Museum – 3.2 & 3.3 expanded

  auctioned to raise money to preserve the Dungeness home of the late film director and gay rights activist Derek…
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  Blog Post

  Pandemic Objects: Garden

  Cheerfully, one week into the lockdown, it was announced that the pioneering garden of artist and filmmaker Derek…
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  Pandemic Objects: Backstage

  Edward Gordon Craig’s visionary reimagining of Hamlet designed for the Moscow Art Theatre in 1911-12 to Derek…