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Today, the V&A announces The Parasol Foundation Women in Photography Project, a major new curatorial programme to support women in photography. The Project, funded by Ms. Ruth Monicka Parasol and the Parasol Foundation Trust, encompasses a new curatorial post alongside acquisitions, research, education and public displays, aiming to foreground and sustain women’s practice in contemporary... Continue Reading →
The Scottish Gallery will be celebrating the life and works of Samuel John Peploe (1871 – 1935) with a major exhibition of his paintings and drawings to coincide with his 150th anniversary. Noted for his diverse oeuvre, Peploe transformed himself from a daring Edwardian portraitist and Impressionist landscape painter into Scotland’s first Modernist. Marking a... Continue Reading →
A pavilion constructed from the world's lowest carbon footprint aluminium, a real-time growing couture gown worn by an artist robot, and the museum’s first in-person Friday Late for over a year have been announced as part of the V&A’s programming for London Design Festival 2021, running from 18-26 September. This year – in the lead... Continue Reading →
Orleans House Gallery’s thought-provoking exhibition and artistic research programme Remember the Future explores our relationship with nature in light of the global ecological crisis, creating a powerful interdisciplinary exhibition with a series of captivating and reflective works. Following renowned activist artists Ackroyd & Harvey’s residency, Bryony Benge-Abbott will be in residence from 20th July –... Continue Reading →
The Museum of London has acquired an ensemble from London fashion designer Tihara Smith’s ‘Windrush collection’ along with a suit owned by her grandfather. Both pieces, and oral histories recorded for the museum by Tihara, her mother and her grandfather have been made available to explore on the Museum of London website to mark Windrush Day 2021. ... Continue Reading →
This new exhibition from The Scottish Gallery seeks to show that Eardley’s cultural capital has never been higher. In the fifty-eight years since her passing, after she succumbed to cancer in August 1963, Eardley’s reputation has been enhanced and today her value is hugely augmented. There has been slow progress over the decade since Eardley’s... Continue Reading →
This July the Museum of London Docklands will open a new free display, Feeding Black: Community, Power & Place, in its London, Sugar & Slavery gallery. The exhibit will draw on collaborative community collecting to explore the central role food plays in Black entrepreneurship and identity in South East London. Food is central to what it means... Continue Reading →
The Museum of London is pleased to announce that it has acquired the well-known sign erected by ZSL London Zoo on their Giraffe House in April 2020. It has been collected as part of the museum’s ongoing Collecting COVID initiative. The giant, light-up, blue wooden sign featuring two red hearts and white ‘NHS’ lettering was... Continue Reading →
Then the Queen left off, quite out of breath, and said to Alice, “Have you seen the Mock Turtle yet?”“No” said Alice. “I don’t even know what a Mock Turtle is.”“It’s the thing Mock Turtle Soup is made from” said the Queen. The V&A will immortalise Heston Blumenthal’s iconic Mock Turtle soup in the first-ever... Continue Reading →
One of the great pioneers of abstraction, Sonia Delaunay was a key figure in the Parisian avant-garde. Delaunay, no doubt one of the most influential female artists of her time, is known for her sense of depth and movement and her bold approach to colour. BASTIAN’s forthcoming exhibition brings together a number of works from... Continue Reading →
