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...Photo City: How Images Shape the Urban World at the V&A Dundee is a terrific exploration of the exchanges between the ways cities have been photographed and of how those images have shaped the subsequent...
...“Childhood is the creative nerve centre of what it means to be human,” says Helen Charman, director of Young V&A....
...On the other side of town in Barlaston, Kate Turner, chief curator at the V&A Wedgwood Collection, has retrieved a leather-bound ceramic pattern book from the company’s archives....
...Chamberlain and Rayner started their textile investigations when they came across a December 1960 US edition of Glamour magazine in the V&A library in London, and an article about a dress collection designed...
...“You know when they did that [David] Bowie show at the V&A? For a long time I’ve thought, Pam could do that,” says Lucas. “So in a way, this is a small step towards Pam’s big retrospective.”...
...The house has won prizes at the V&A Illustration Awards, as well as being recognised in the book trade for its bindings, production and indexing....
...Take her Self Evident series of eight portraits of black Britons, taken in 1995 and now part of the V&A collection....
...My style icon is my wife, Helen, who always seems to look immensely stylish. She used to work as an art director at a fashion magazine, so I suppose she has no excuse not to be....
...“And Helen Mirren,” she adds finally. “I would put my hand on her bosom immediately!” ‘Jane Birkin: Oh!...
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...On stage, playwright Helen Edmundson and director Rufus Norris bring a new charge to that combination of the epic and the intimate as the characters confide in the audience, making us witnesses to a shared...
...Duncan Forbes, the V&A’s director of photography, was appointed two years ago....
...Melly had identified these sartorial shifts as early as 1966, when he noticed exaggerated costumes worn by gallery-goers at an exhibition of the work of Aubrey Beardsley, the Victorian illustrator, at the V&...
...Leonie Bell, director V&A Dundee, a major design centre that opened in Scotland in 2018, says her organisation faced similar criticism, which is why preview events such as The Factory’s “Arcadia” are essential...
...Helen Thomas asks what the statement means for business. The war in Ukraine has raised questions about the UK’s energy security....
...The V&A holds examples by Rayne, Biba and Chelsea Cobbler in its collection....
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...According to the curator, Clark is not seeking to emulate his hero David Bowie by cranking up his mystique (Bowie also declined to give interviews for his 2013 career retrospective at the V&A)....
...There is a version in the V&A. And I am no longer in my twenties. But a couple of years ago I hit upon a new-ish label with identical powers....
...Adam Low film director Akram Khandancer and choreographer Ayelet Waldmanwriter Augustus Casely-HayfordDirector V&A East Prof Carl GombrichLondon Interdisciplinary School Caryl Churchillplaywright Cate...
...Henry Fielding, author of Tom Jones and namesake of Helen. Emma Watson: Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films, who has the same initials as Hugh Grant....
...Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said the high-frequency data “remain consistent with a recovery that will fall a long way short of looking V-shaped”....
...“It is the only one of its kind to be found in the UK, and one of only seven known examples in the world,” according to the V&A....
...“I love the V&A, and I love imagining the curiosities they once held,” says Courtauld. “The narratives are extraordinary,” says Speake....
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