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Blog PostMake Good: Rethinking Material Futures symposium 2023On 1 March 2023 Make Good: Rethinking Material Futures hosted its second symposium in the V&A Lydia…
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Blog PostHow did we get here? Our paths to working with digital objects at the V&AMy background is in history of design and material culture, and I have this very situated way of thinking…
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Blog PostWe were making history: women in the farmers’ movement‘This farm struggle would only be half as strong, half as vibrant if you had not joined the movement’, said senior farm union leader Joginder Singh Ugrahan. He was addressing a massive rally of women...
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Blog PostSearching for dealers in the V&A’s East Asia collectionEast Asian objects have been collected by the V&A since its very inception. It was not until the 1970s, however, that works from China, Korea and Japan were brought together in a single collection, rather...
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Blog PostThe Ramadan Pavilion by Shahed Saleem‘The Ramadan Pavilion is the counterpoint to the Kew folly as it represents Muslim life and culture in…
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Blog PostBuilding digital reconstructions of complex manuscriptsAs explained in full in that article – and very briefly recapped here – this 14th-century three volume…
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Blog PostTorrijos and the tradition of Arabic epigraphy in Castilian architectureEpigraphy is the word we use for the study of inscriptions. Two of the ceilings from the Torrijos palace were originally associated with a plaster frieze containing legible Arabic inscriptions. The sections of original plaster...
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Blog PostCollective visionsIn previous centuries, natural dyes such as pomegranate had a significant role in Palestinian culture…
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Blog PostWhy representation matters: Creating the Africa Fashion mannequinMannequins play a significant role in the staging of V&A fashion exhibitions.…
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Blog PostTropical Modernism: Architecture and power in West AfricaThis is the V&A’s fourth special project with La Biennale di Venezia for the Pavilion of Applied Arts at the Venice Architecture Biennale. In response to Scottish-Ghanaian architect Lesley Lokko’s theme, ‘The Laboratory of the Future’,...
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Blog PostMiles Aldridge in conversationMiles Aldridge is a British photographer who lives and works in London. The V&A was pleased to acquire two of his photographs last year for the permanent collection. Here we talk about icons, innovations and...
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Blog PostCloth as archive: contemporary Dioula weaving in northern Côte d’IvoireEmma C. Wingfield is a Doctoral Candidate in the Visual Cultures Department at Goldsmiths, University of London, and one of three students awarded funding through The Karun Thakar Scholarship Award in 2021. Below is a...
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Blog PostThe history of the Royal Albert Hall: A story told by the building’s decorationWhen understood in their historical context, the shields are illustrated allusions to the social, cultural…
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Blog PostUkraine in focus: Photographs by Mark NevilleSix portraits currently on display at the V&A offer a glimpse of life in Ukraine before the war with Russia began in 2022. They were taken by British photographer Mark Neville (b. 1966) over six...
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Blog PostDaily devotion – Christian holy water stoupsWorshippers dip their fingers in the holy water, and make the sign of the cross.…
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Blog PostFriday Late is back for 2022!Late questions the role of aesthetics in our modern world…
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Blog PostSecrets of the Museum – 3.4 expandedGhana in 1960 and what it means to them.…
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Blog PostPandemic Objects: GardenThese are important feelings to nurture in times of crisis.…
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Blog PostBringing Huguenot history to lifeWe know that the Queen of Navarre died in in Paris in June – rumours were rife that she had been poisoned…
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Blog PostTwenty Objects for Twenty Years: St George Altarpiece, Valencia, c.1400A masterpiece of late gothic painting presides in solitary splendour over one end of the Raphael Cartoon…
