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...Earlier this year, her work was the subject of a major exhibition at Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, and is currently on show at Mariane Ibrahim’s Mexico City gallery....
..., George Nelson clocks – but even the tote bags and posters have that Vitra touch. design-museum.de Lucy Watson National Museum of African American History & Culture, Washington, DC There are always lines...
...Little Greene A slice of British heritage on Rue Bonaparte, the showroom will present the brand’s fourth iteration of National Trust Papers – designs born of original patterns found in National Trust properties...
...Organised by the Biennale and London’s V&A Museum in collaboration with KNUST and the Architectural Association (AA), the exhibition, which includes a 35-metre-long brise soleil (sun shade), photographs...
...(Check out FT Globetrotter’s Wimbledon series, with everything from a fiendish quiz to a tour of its museum here.)...
...The V&A’s installation on Tropical Modernism, initially a European colonial project but one adopted and adapted by African nations, notably in post-independence Ghana by the Nkrumah government (Ghana is...
...New institutions like the wonderful National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington have told stories in a different way, focusing on particular peoples rather than attempting some kind...
...Visits to the British Museum, which previously ranked as the UK’s most popular attraction, were 35 per cent lower, while trips to the National Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum were more than 40...
...In reduced version, Donatello is at Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie (to January 8), then arrives at London’s V&A in February; both museums contribute key loans....
...The Pitt Rivers Museum, part of the University of Oxford, is involved in a different kind of reconciliation project involving the east African Maasai tribe....
...At the National Museum of Ancient Art, a weather-stained 17th-century palace built by the first Count of Alvor, former viceroy of India, I met the deputy director, Anísio Franco, and we talked about globalisation...
...In London, too, February is going to be a gala month, with the cream of the crop being the V&A’s hosting of the magnificent display of the works of Donatello — possibly the first ever in the British capital...
...It was known for decades as the National Film Theatre, and a kaleidoscope of movies still play in the four screens....
...But the Democrats’ hopes of winning the crucial Senate seat there have been hurt by the fact that their candidate, John Fetterman, recently had a stroke....
...set free 800,000 Africans who were legally owned by Britons....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...One jeweller is now abandoning mining altogether in favour of lab-grown gems, a development that, if it takes off, may hurt African producers but permanently lower retail prices....
...The first is a 1,200-year-old red stone V, one of hundreds that once formed a series of immense African henges along the Gambia river....
...“I found a wallpaper sample from her period at the V&A museum which I simplified to display her figure.”...
...“The characterisation of ‘tropical medicine’ meant ‘these people in Africa or the tropics’, which were considered a ‘museum of diseases’.”...
...An outbreak of African swine fever in 2018 led to the culling of millions of animals and rising pork prices; in July, they were up 86 per cent compared with a year earlier....
...From his early years as director of the National Portrait Gallery through 14 years at the head of the Victoria and Albert Museum to his best-selling diaries and his book The Story of Britain, Sir Roy has...
...It’s a destination for high-end, investment-level kimonos, three of which feature in the V&A’s show....
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