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  V&A South Kensington

  Direction/Concept/Choreography/Performer: Vidya Patel Composer/Multi-Instrumentalist/Performer: Shammi…
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  Fashion and Fiction: Elif Shafak with Rosie Goldsmith

  Join acclaimed author Elif Shafak in conversation with journalist Rosie Goldsmith
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  Pop-up Performance: Easter Holidays

  Performed by Andre Refig and Nadia Shash.…
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  Stand Up at the V&A 2019

  Headlined by award-winning comedian and writer Shazia Mirza, the evening will also feature Steff Todd…
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  Jain Art: celebrating Mahavir Jayanti

  talks from contemporary Jain art to medieval manuscripts, and enjoy a special viewing of a painting by Shanti…

Features

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  Contemporary hanbok design: Cheollik Dress and Shamanism Collection by Tchai Kim

  "'Tchai' means 'difference'. We are all different so we need to find ways to accept that and coexist".
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  Poor Maria and the Bourbonnais Shepherd – when literature came into fashion

  The novels of the Irish writer Laurence Sterne, now best remembered for Tristram Shandy, were enormously…
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  Jameel Prize 4

  Wael Shawky Wael Shawky presents the film Cabaret Crusades: The Path to Cairo (2012).…
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  Jameel Prize 2011

  Hadieh Shafie Hadieh Shafie's two new works, 22500 (2011) and 26000 (2011) are a continuation of her…
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  About the Contemporary Ceramic Art from the Middle East display

  The focus may be scientific enquiry into the use of materials – as with Zahed Taj-Eddin's Nu Shabtis…

About us and our work

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  V&A East

  Clark’s 1987 ballet Because We Must and experiments in portraiture from photographers Maud Sulter and Shadi…

From the Blog

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  The spattered jama / 1

  plain red or green on Gangaur; faganya on Holi; black on Diwali; white or light pink, or motia, on Sharad…
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  Bringing the outside inside: studio photography

  Likewise, Shadi Ghadirian (b.1974) signals the conventions of early studio portraiture.…
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  The Comic Book Community

  Everyone was agog with the latest Shazam and The Shadow.…
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  Artificially Intelligent. Digital Design Weekend 2018

  Intelligence with Luba Elliott, Chris Luebkeman (ARUP), Daghan Cam (AI Build), Phoenix Perry and Hooman Shayani…
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  GUEST POST: My Qur’an pendant from Syria

  opportunity of visiting were world heritage sites such as the Umayyad desert castle Qasr al-Hayr al–Sharqi…