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Curator Lesley Lokko’s focus on Africa and its diaspora has inspired creative work — and few buildings
The V&A shows how a ‘colonial’ style in fact always had diverse influences and practitioners
More than 80,000 items, many never seen in public before, will be held at new hub in east London
The UK’s first ever show devoted to the artist has psychological intensity and revolutionary technique
He has gone from designing clothes for Beyoncé to exploring his south Asian heritage in an installation at the museum
Their work challenges the expectation of what jewellery is, says museum’s curator
Curator Christine Checinska aims to capture the complexity of the continent’s style
Conservator Katrina Redman saves jewels in danger of deterioration at the V&A
A new exhibition at the V&A suggests menswear has always been radical. We compare past and present
Our critic surveys a year where hope and joy animated exhibitions but the culture wars continued their creep
Treasury confirms additional funding of £850m for cultural institutions as they recover from pandemic
Monuments, museums and galleries are caught uneasily between activists and an interventionist government
The museum’s expansive exhibition attempts to weave a thread from the ancient to the contemporary
An exhibition at the V&A proves that men have long clutched a ‘burse’
The installation by Darren Waterston is, like the original, an ‘overbearing exercise in decadence’
A new V&A exhibition shows how the photographer creates his surreal magic
‘Epic Iran’ will include 300 objects from 5,000 years of history at museum in London
A V&A show offers a taste of new ways to make, consume and dispose of what we eat
The V&A museum works with designers to create collections for artists’ exhibitions
Highlights include work by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and stage backdrop for Ballet Russes
Cast Courts were created in the 19th century and comprise finest architectural treasures
The reworked space intriguingly embraces the camera as object, as well as images themselves
The German artist unveils his latest series, a collaboration of sorts with the 19th-century photographer Linnaeus Tripe
How Kengo Kuma’s design for the new outpost was inspired by its Tayside setting
V&A Dundee is centrepiece of £1bn redevelopment of the city’s notoriously ugly waterfront
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