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...Like Xu, Ayana V Jackson is her own subject; she uses her body to question the history of photography....
...Reimagined for the sleek, glossy underground hangar of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Sainsbury Gallery, the tremendous touring Donatello retrospective arrives in London — the UK’s first show ever devoted...
...Among myriad horrors and marvels, this brilliantly thought-out and unmissable show, co-curated by Victoria Avery, traces with forensic clarity how and why that loss occurred....
...is Front Row, a patchwork-like print originally envisaged as a decor for Kemp’s trendy Tribeca outpost the Warren Street Hotel, inspired by the handicrafts of the Indian Gujariti whom Kemp describes as “masters...
...Frieze Masters, the fair’s sibling show, is a dazzling display of work pre- 2000, from medieval illuminated manuscripts to the giants of modernism....
...Time-ravaged Old Masters translated into dresses and coats overlaid with silken strands that shivered as the models walked....
...The British ceramicist and writer is sitting in a glass-walled room in the ceramics galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, looking at rows of glass cabinets packed with decorative vessels...
...A recent exhibition she worked on was Fabergé in London: Romance to Revolution, exploring the work of the master Russian goldsmith. “Those pieces were phenomenal. The craftsmanship was amazing....
...While following his father George V’s coffin in procession, Edward VIII recalled seeing “a flash of light dancing along the pavement”....
...“Here, the focus has mainly been on FMCG [fast moving consumer goods] products,” says Victoria Waugh, co-founder of V&V Sustainability Consultancy....
...“Victoria and I discussed what part objects might play in a place like Frieze Masters,” he says....
...He was to be accompanied by Victoria — groomed, blonde — just in from New York, where she was studying art history, and Teresa Mavica — groomed, blonde — then V-A-C’s director....
...Born in Kenya, Muroki moved to the UK aged five and is completing a masters in comparative social policy at Oxford university....
...The selection includes such floral masters as Jan Brueghel the Elder and Georgia O’Keeffe, but also highlights lesser-known names....
...“Master jewellers can’t wait to be involved, to help to grow a future generation of craftsmen and women and change their direction in life.”...
...A storage unit larger than my first flat in London — and a second bedroom that used to be the master — houses roughly 3,000 items, including Christian Lacroix haute couture ball gowns, a wasp-waisted John...
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...Inspired by a trip to the Victoria & Albert Museum’s Cristóbal Balenciaga exhibition, where a one-seam coat created by the master of structure and volume in 1961 was on display, Fiedler used a rectangle...
...The first is that the US only needs a month or two to get back to a V-shaped boom....
...But it also reflected Kansai’s approachability — he often put himself on stage at his shows, as a master of ceremonies....
...This year, the money goes to two institutions — London’s Victoria & Albert Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art....
...London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, owner of the Madonna, had previously attributed the terracotta to another 15th-century sculptor, Antonio Rossellino. Now it is keeping its counsel....
...Kaellgren advised him to embark on a degree in the early 1990s at the Royal College of Art in London, which ran a masters programme at the V&A in history of design....
...All the V&A will say at the moment is that it “welcomes [the] ongoing discussion”....
...I visit Zafferano to order the Milanese veal escalope and saffron risotto and love to visit the Victoria and Albert Museum: I discovered the V&A during the McQueen retrospective and the fashion collection...
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