What's On

• Film screening

  NVAP Screening: The Chairs

  V&A South Kensington

  Join us for a screening from the National Video Archive of Performance
• Course

  Art and Crime: Forgeries, Theft and Fraud

  V&A South Kensington

  art historian, lecturer for the National Gallery, the V&A and Birkbeck College; Vernon Rapley FSA, Chair…
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  The Story of Two Chairs

  A display showcasing two new chairs designed for the V&A, showing the chairs at different stages – from initial idea to developed models.
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  In Focus Tour: Cosway Sitters Chair

  Penelope Hines, Assistant Curator, Designs will be examining the 18th century furniture of Matthais Lock. Balancing skill and spectacle, Lock designed the fantastically Rococo and almost completely impractical ‘Cosway Sitters Chair’. This amongst other designs and furniture will be explored in this inspiring talk.
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  Kick Back and Reenact: Gitta Gschwendtner's Interactive Chair Bench

  V&A South Kensington

  Part of a series of talks led by Assistant Curators across the V&A’s collections
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  Drop-in Design: Thinking 3D

  V&A South Kensington

  Join us in the Furniture galleries on Level 4 and explore the museum's amazing chair collection.…
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  The Crafts of Fashion

  V&A South Kensington

  Join Émilie Hammen, Professor and Director of the CHANEL and le19M Chair in Fashion Savoir-Faire…
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  Online Talk: The Crafts of Fashion

  Online

  Join Émilie Hammen, Professor and Director of the CHANEL and le19M Chair in Fashion Savoir-Faire…
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  Representations of care in photography

  V&A South Kensington

  detached, bringing to light the collective maternal experience, one which can remain widely unseen Chaired…
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  Nina Power in Conversation with Anat Ben-David,

  Chaired by David Falkner, Director of the Stanley Picker Gallery.…
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  Barber & Osgerby

  Phaidon), join them as they discuss their research-based approach to major projects from the Tip Ton chair…
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  A World of Many Worlds

  V&A South Kensington

  The Latent Chair byJiwon Jang  This project explores how AI perceives chairs and how humans might follow…
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  Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award Symposium 2024

  V&A South Kensington

  Lewis Bush will present their award winning and nominated publications, followed by an in-conversation chaired…
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  Make Good Symposium 2025 - Online

  Online

  Standing, economist   Forestry Jez Ralph, Evolving Forests Sarmīte Polakova, Studio Sarmīte Q&A chaired…
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  Past Event

  LGBT History Month: Shut that door! Camp in British light entertainment and gay liberation

  museum's Theatre and Performance collection, Alice Power (Assistant Curator and V&A LGBTQ working group co-chair…
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  Past Event

  'Women, Life, Freedom', and the Arts

  V&A South Kensington

  Chaired by Fuchsia Hart, Iran Heritage Foundation Curator for the Iranian Collections at the V&A, the…
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  Past Event

  Make Good Symposium 2025

  V&A South Kensington

  Guy Standing, economist Forestry Jez Ralph, Evolving Forests Sarmīte Polakova, Studio Sarmīte Q&A chaired…
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  Past Event

  The Art of Making Art: Staging Sondheim

  V&A South Kensington

  Chaired by theatre critic Matt Wolf and featuring special guests Rosalie Craig, Julian Ovenden and Janie…
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  Past Event

  Behind The Curtain

  His sitters have all held the position of the Cameron Mackintosh Chair of Contemporary Theatre at Oxford…
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  Past Event

  Behind the Curtain: Francis Hamel in Residence

  famous sitters have all held the prestigious position of Visiting Professor of the Cameron Mackintosh Chair…