In the winter of 2023, I spent three months on placement at the V&A, where I researched the provenance of the museum’s South Asian collections as part of a Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP). The V&A’s... The post Researching South Asia provenance appeared first on V&A Blog ..read more

Acts of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms and the Art of Photography is a new collaborative group exhibition organised with the South London Gallery and the V&A’s Parasol Foundation Women in Photography Project, which brings together works... The post ‘Acts of Resistance’: artist recommendations appeared first on V&A Blog ..read more

For the V&A’s eighth collaboration with La Biennale di Venezia, artistic director Adriano Pedrosa selected as the featured artist his fellow Brazilian, Beatriz Milhazes. Milhazes, one of the best-known and most distinguished practitioners of Brazil, is no stranger to... The post Beatriz Milhazes appeared first on V&A Blog ..read more

How should V&A East tell the story of Robin Hood Gardens? V&A East are interested in generating new conversations and approaches that invite practical responses to themes of social housing and community action. We are... The post Open call: Robin Hood appeared first on V&A Blog ..read more

On Tuesday 19 March we hosted our 2023 – 24 V&A Innovate National Schools Challenge Pitching and Awards Day. What an incredible day it was!  The top 10 teams travelled from across the country to the V&A South Kensington, where they took part in creative workshops with artists and designers, saw their work on display, and stood up in front of a full auditorium to showcase their brilliant design ideas to a panel of industry judges. We had four inspiring industry judges on the panel for this year’s Challenge headed up by Dr Helen Charman, Director of Young V&A, Learning... The po ..read more

As part of my research into religious objects for V&A East Storehouse, which will open in 2024 in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, I have been investigating religious objects in the collection from around the... The post Daily devotion – Hanuman, the Hindu demi-god appeared first on V&A Blog ..read more

What is ‘Britishness’? Depending on the era, the person and their relationship with the four countries that make up the United Kingdom, the response to this question will always be different. But throughout the ages,... The post Laughing Matters: The State of a Nation appeared first on V&A Blog ..read more

Explore the shortlisted entries for the 2024 V&A Illustration Awards. The post V&A Illustration Awards 2024 – the shortlists! appeared first on V&A Blog ..read more

For the display Patric Prince: Digital Art Visionary, I completed research on the collection and archive of this fascinating collector and curator. A defining feature of her collecting was how broad it was – not... The post A chat with computer animation programmer: Paul Allen Newell appeared first on V&A Blog ..read more

THM/636/1/116 Royal Ballet – Swan Lake The Theatre and Performance Archive holds a large number of photographic collections, containing thousands of prints and negatives. But in more recent years, as technology has moved on, we... The post Frederika Davis appeared first on V&A Blog ..read more