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...On either side, in black and white, are scenes of paupers being attended to with food and clothing. The mawkish Victorian sentimentality oozes through....
...Twenty years later the trend is gathering pace: the V&A is building an open storage facility in east London and the Boijmans van Beuningen opened its version in Rotterdam last year....
...This is not Saleem’s first collaboration with the V&A....
...Soft greys and browns represent the wool trade; the brighter pinks and blues were based on an 18th-century Spitalfields silk dress at the V&A....
...A century ago, the London Society, an influential civic group, produced a plan for London’s future made up of contributions from such leading Edwardian architects as Edwin Lutyens and Aston Webb....
...He sees the pavilion as part of The Question of Clay, a multi-institution project with past exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery and White Cube, and a research project at the V&A....
...The world’s big museums, including the V&A in London (which is building a large accessible archive in the Olympic Park with architects Diller Scofidio & Renfro), seem to have suddenly, collectively, decided...
...Patented: 1,000 Design Patentsby Thomas Rinaldi, Phaidon £29.95 Presented here deadpan in the black and white line drawings for their original US patent applications are some of the most familiar, famous...
...The same white foam tiles in dropped ceilings seem to recur everywhere, hinting at the way these spaces have so often been adapted from commercial uses....
...“The producers and buyers of NFTs are overwhelmingly white and male,” says Tokini Peterside, founder of the Art X Lagos fair....
...The V&A’s reconstructions of shabby but infinitely layered and complex ad hoc British mosques is very striking and among the most memorable displays....
...Muf was instrumental in the V&A’s acquisition of an apartment-sized chunk of the demolished Robin Hood Estate; it curated the British Pavilion at the 2010 Venice Biennale....
...(FT) Economists are still too upbeat Economists initially, and over-optimistically, embraced a relatively quick V-shaped recovery....
...Details Edwin Heathcote was a guest of The Stratford....
...Reminiscences of a Stock Operator , by Edwin Lefevre (I am not a cyclist). Liar’s Poker , by Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short (NJT)....
...Suspended ominously above the V&A’s latest exhibition is the black V of the Aquila, a colossal drone with a wingspan as big as a Boeing 747, designed and developed by Facebook....
...At the V&A, Amanda Levete folded her courtyard into an origami landscape; JKMM have draped theirs like a series of tents....
...There is, for instance, a blue-and-white porcelain china plate from the turn of the 17th century and a clumsier Delft dish from a century later that makes it clear that the simplistic notion of China as...
...Further off, crofts are white dots in the red of the heathered hills above the blue of the sea....
...Levete’s design for the V&A Exhibition Road Quarter is a courtyard, a space rather than an object....
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture critic. The new Design Museum opens on November 24; designmuseum.org. Photographs: Max Creasy...
...Jackson (Errol Louis, NYDN) White elites v white America (Victor Davis Hanson, NRO) Political sideshow Ben Carson: super surrogate “Tell me a politician who doesn’t tell lies”; “He does not force his...
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture critic Photographs: iguanas.co.uk; V&A Slideshow photographs: marc-newson.com; Getty; V&A; AFP Letter in response to this article: New York’s museums in need...
...Even cynics have to smile; the maid lifting a wall like a curtain to shovel dust beneath, painted on the side of Hoxton’s White Cube gallery, became a sensation....
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture critic Photographs: Rick Pushinsky...
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