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Blog PostBREAKING NEWS! Henry Cole’s beloved Jim identifiedObservant visitors to the V&A’s Madejski Garden frequently notice two commemorative plaques set into a discreet corner of the garden’s perimeter wall, adjacent to the entrance to The Dorothy and Michael Hintze Sculpture Galleries. Dedicated...
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Blog PostNew photography acquisition: Mónica Alcázar-DuarteMónica Alcázar-Duarte is a Mexican-British multi-disciplinary artist. ‘Second Nature’ is an ongoing project examining the role of search engine algorithms in society, and how digital bias reinforces racial and gender stereotypes. Since 2017, Alcázar-Duarte has...
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Blog PostNew acquisition – Joanne Leonard’s ‘Journal of a Miscarriage’Joanne Leonard is an American artist renowned for her photography, photo-collage and feminist art practice. Leonard describes her work as being an ‘intimate documentary’, often centring overlooked women’s stories and difficult personal experiences, such as...
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Blog PostChiming in the new year with DickensAt least one Christmas I am sure you’ve settled down and ended up watching or perhaps even reading A Christmas Carol. It is hard to go through life and avoid this Dickensian classic altogether (and...
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Blog PostChiming in the new year with DickensAt least one Christmas I am sure you have settled down to watch, or perhaps even read, ‘A Christmas Carol’ (1843). It is hard to go through life and avoid this Dickensian classic altogether –...
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Blog PostPERCEIVE: New ways of thinking about autochromesIn 2019, the V&A embarked on a project to scope, catalogue, conserve, and digitise the substantial and internationally significant collection of over 2000 autochrome plates. This major project informed the publication Colour Mania: Photographing the...
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Blog PostNew photography acquisition: Siân Davey“There is an expiry date to anger. It just turns inwards if it burns too long, so I turned to spirituality and transformed anger into love. That turning inwards took me into psychotherapy and then...
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Blog PostPhotography Centre browsing library – new photobooks from AustraliaThe newly expanded Photography Centre at V&A South Kensington is the largest space in the UK dedicated to a permanent photography collection. Hosting a world-leading programme of displays, events and opportunities for research, it celebrates...
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Blog PostA new way to enquire at the NAL and V&A ArchivesThe National Art Library and V&A Archives have just launched our brand-new enquiry system using the LibAnswers platform, which will allow users from near and far to access our services more efficiently than ever before. ...
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Blog PostLaunching a new training and development programme for early career researchersThis post is part of the series Perspectives on Research, commissioned as part of the Early Career Research Fellowships in Cultural and Heritage Institutions programme, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and coordinated...
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Blog PostNew photography acquisition: Laura AguilarLaura Aguilar (1959 – 2018) was a Mexican American photographer and a key part of Chinana art history. A pioneer of intersectional feminism, her practice is deeply connected to her personal experiences as a working...
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Blog PostDigital design – Art Fund New Collecting AwardIn 2019, I was awarded a grant by the Art Fund New Collecting Award to further develop our collection of digital design for the V&A. As part of that work, I have spent time visiting...
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Blog PostNew photography acquisition: ‘Ghostwriter’ by Sheida SoleimaniTo commemorate the one year anniversary of the Women, Life, Freedom protests in Iran, sparked by the violent death of Mahsa Jina Amini, the V&A has newly acquired works by the Iranian-American artist, Sheida Soleimani.
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Blog PostInventing new support systems – George FeredayGeorge Fereday is an associate teaching professor at the School of Art, Architecture and Design at London Metropolitan University. He was one of the participants in the Field Notes summer school, organised collaboratively between V&A’s...
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Blog PostMetalworking Now: New acquisitions by Jessica Jue and Francisca OnumahIn November 2022 we installed Metalworking Now, a new display in Room 66 of the Whiteley Silver Galleries which celebrates the dynamism of modern metalworking. The works represented were produced across the world and were...
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Blog PostExplore the Collections – our new Organisation PagesThe V&A has incredibly rich data about the objects in our collections, carefully catalogued by curators in our Collections Management System. The work to update this data is never finished, despite continuous and huge efforts....
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Blog PostEternal Medium: Seeing the World in Stone – a new exhibition at Los Angeles County Museum of ArtSince 2017 the Gilbert Trust for the Arts has presented generous development opportunities for V&A staff to work on exciting projects. Remarkably, I was offered the last of these – an 18-month secondment to work...
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Blog PostMetalworking Now: a new display in the Silver GalleriesThe new display Metalworking Now is now open in Room 66: the Whiteley Silver Galleries, celebrating the dynamism of modern metalworking and showcases some recent acquisitions made for our contemporary metalwork collection. The museum has...
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Blog PostReconstructing the India Museum experience: some early personal visitor accountsor miscellanies, which are collections of various pieces of writing by different authors, sometimes next…
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Blog PostHow to write a winning museum job applicationNext, research the employer.…
