Features

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  Book as idea

  His interest in ecology led him to investigate the habits of the common European robin and this research…
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  Pattern design after William Morris

  Lewis Foreman Day (1845 – 1910)Trained as a stained-glass maker, Lewis Foreman Day was one of the most…
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  V&A trail: Out in the museum

  Stop 9: Peeling off the bitter rind, by Keith Lewis, 1993Map link: Jewellery, Room 91, Level 2 Keith…
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  John Tenniel – an introduction

  fencing and dancing master – but his true talent was his photographic memory that made it easy for him…
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  'From A to Biba' by Barbara Hulanicki

  I had bought the sugar pink gingham in John Lewis, and had assumed that all the mills in Manchester were…

Objects

What's On

• Past Event

  Tam Joseph in Conversation: I Know What I See

  V&A South Kensington

  Tam’s art has taken him in many different directions, but it is grounded in a sensibility which revels…

From the Blog

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  Paolozzi: Man and the machine

  Born in 1924 in Leith to Italian parents, Paolozzi is known as one of the founding members of the Pop…
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  V&A Youth Collective / Objects and opinion – the racial erasure of colour in beauty norms

  © Victoria and Albert Museum, London I remember reading Firenzuola and noticing how eerily similar his…
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  Toppling and reclaiming: What should we do with the objects that trouble us?

  experimentation on enslaved women and his design for a vaginal speculum.…
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  Animating Alice

  Inspired by our Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser exhibition, which celebrates the enduring power of Lewis…
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  Enter the wonderful world of Kristjana S Williams

  Lewis Carroll, I think, to a lot of creators is remarkable because of the depth of creativity, the layering…