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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...
...What product does not stand out in the window of a store on a street with the best residential urban architecture in the world?...
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...London is about the grand gesture planning of the new Stratford, where the V&A East museum is taking shape, and it is about Mare Street market, which maintains a lively balance between street food vendors...
...It was an advertisement for an urban open-water challenge, circumnavigating the Danish parliament on a canal network in the centre of the city....
...“It is about black Britain and what it is to be working class,” he says of his Converge gilet, for example, which was acquired by the V&A for its collection in 2021. “It is descriptive of urban life....
...It is a stark contrast to the self-indulgent conceptual models, visionary urban plans and conceptual simulacra of perfectly projected architectures which have defined the Biennale for more than four decades...
...His large urban canvas might seem to owe nothing to the tiny, intricate landscapes and interiors on the handmade paper known as wasli....
...archaeologist Denise Schmandt-Besserat, we now believe those tablets to exemplify the simultaneous development of contracts, accounts, mathematics and writing itself, all in service of an increasingly complex urban...
...Prix Pictet Human, 2023 is at the V&A’s Porter Gallery until October 22 Follow @FTMag to find out about our latest stories first...
...Knight commandeered it to represent the fashionable doctrine of “free trade”, an anti-protectionist economic position that suited an industrialising country that needed its urban workforce to have access...
...It is almost entirely urban and working class, with a changing cast of immigrants — first German and Irish; then, from the 1960s, increasingly Latino....
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...Giovanni Vespucci’s “World Map”, the master nautical chart from 1526 given to all Spanish navigators, with details of ships, conquests and resources, is displayed in Charles V’s ornamental version....
...Very different is Noriyosha Morimura’s Television House in Japan’s Suita City, a high-tech dwelling set on a V-shaped base designed to isolate the structure from tremors....
...Most attempts to escape from the pressures of modern urban life are once-in-a-lifetime events....
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...Impressive too were the casting “gets”: Dua Lipa, Kim Kardashian, Nicole Kidman (her husband Keith Urban sat front row)....
...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....
...Provincial officials and real estate developers had been relying on a wave of 100mn urban migrants over the next decade....
...Then look at the V&A or the Royal Albert Hall and Albert Memorial, to either side of the Serpentine Gallery, with their rich terracotta detail, or at the massive holdings of ceramics in the museum, and it...
...Most are placing their bets on urban air mobility: short flights in cities from “vertiport” landing pads with aircraft powered by rotors rather than jets....
...London’s exhibition season began with psychedelic tea parties and disappearing rabbits in the V&A’s immersive wonderland Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser and ended with translucent, spidery, electricified...
...But economists, also worried about rising inflation, are not optimistic that the scale and delivery of the planned stimulus will be enough to prime a “V-shape” recovery from the world’s biggest consumer...
...Also in February, Game of Thrones star Kit Harington plays Henry V in a new, modern staging of Shakespeare’s play that promises to explore our relationship with Europe and what it means to be English (Donmar...
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