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Once in a lifetime V&A show brings back look of 80s

28.02.11
The style of Grace Jones, Talking Heads and New Order will feature in the autumn blockbuster at the Victoria and Albert Museum ... more

Crystal pants and mink coats from fashion student

03.02.11
Playboy owner Hugh Heffner inspires a London College of Fashion student to make crystal encrusted underwear... more

Moths aflutter at the top of the V&A

26.11.10
New art installation launching at the Victoria and Albert Museum resembles fluttering moths’ wings — but involves an optical illusion... more

Victoria & Albert Museum launches design contest for £30m extension

14.07.10
The Victoria and Albert Museum is to hold a design competition this autumn for a major extension... more

V&A's famous quilts show pulls in the crowds

17.03.10
The Victoria & Albert Museum’s first exhibition of quilts is proving the quirkiest hit of recent years with advance sales higher than for shows on the Baroque, Indian maharajas and The Supremes.... more

It's an antiques roadshow at V&A's Medieval and Renaissance galleries

14.01.10
Grand masterpieces jostle with trinkets in the V&A's new £32 million Medieval and Renaissance galleries... more

The Great Gallery Gallop

17.12.09
The holidays provide a wonderful chance to catch up on exhibitions — from the V&A’s fine new galleries to masterly drawings in Dulwich.... more

Video: Art goes digital at the V&A's new exhibition

07.12.09
The first digital design exhibition to be held at the Victoria and Albert Museum is unveiled ... more

V&A's renaissance: new galleries reveal greatest treasures

30.11.09
The finishing touches are being put on 10 new galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum showing a thousand years of European art and design at a cost of £32million... more

Treasures of the maharajas unveiled at V&A

06.10.09
Treasures belonging to the great royal families of India which have never been seen in Britain go on show in London this week... more

Look but don’t touch at V&A’s ceramics rooms

16.09.09
It's enough to test the nerve of any curator: setting up 3,300 of the world’s most precious but supremely breakable works of art and craft... more

The V&A unveils the first Buddhist gallery in Britain

27.04.09
The first gallery in Britain dedicated to Buddhist sculpture opens in London this week at the Victoria and Albert Museum... more

What to see over Easter

09.04.09
We pick the top five exhibitions, films, shows and egg hunts in London for the Easter weekend.... more

Baroque was first age of bling

03.04.09
A new survey of the Baroque is full of the ludicrous and extravagant but where is emotion, magnificence and spirit?.... more

This is no time to scrimp on the fizz

25.02.09
Recession - what recession? Last week I went to two of the most lavish parties I've been to for many a moon (and believe me, I go to a lot of parties)... more

£245,000 Lottery boost for Museum of Childhood

22.12.08
The archives of the toy manufacturers who made Corgi cars, the Spacehopper and Action Man are to be preserved for future generations... more

V&A leads celebration of 'dazzling' age

20.10.08
London is set to go Baroque next year when the Victoria and Albert Museum heads a cavalcade of events celebrating the style epitomised by Louis XIV's palace at Versailles... more

V&A brings art in from the cold

18.09.08
A Sputnik satellite that survived because it was never launched is the dramatic introduction to a new exhibition on design in the Cold War era... more

Now Supremes get the V&A treatment

12.05.08
Costumes worn by The Supremes are to go on show in a V&A exhibition set against the backdrop of black rights in America.... more

Museum chiefs want tax deals to boost donations by public

25.04.08
A campaign by leading museum and gallery directors for greater charitable giving is being backed by the Tories... more

V&A's paintings catalogued

07.03.08
The glories of the Victoria and Albert Museum's collection of paintings are revealed... more

Golden era of fashion

01.08.07
A golden era of fashion is celebrated with designs from Christian Dior and Givenchy at the Victoria and Albert Museum from 22 September. ... more

V&A marks 150 years of inspiration

26.06.07
The Victoria and Albert Museum is as great an inspiration to Britain's artists and designers as it was when Henry Cole founded it 150 years ago...... more

A late line-up at the museum

01.05.07
Special after-dark events are to be held during Museums and Galleries Month, including a debate on class and a "surrealist ball".... more

'Uncomfortable truth' about slavery on display

20.02.07
A new contemporary art exhibition marking the bicentenary of the outlawing of the British slave trade opens at the Victoria and Albert Museum.... more

Final curtain for the Theatre Museum

08.01.07
Despite attempts to save London's Theatre Museum by Dame Judi Dench and Vanessa Redgrave, it has closed its doors to the public after 20 years. ... more

Take me out: Best weekend events

26.10.06
The V&A hosts a free art party with DJ Spoony providing the tunes, Night of the Vaguely Dead offers the usual burlesquery and Buttoned Down Disco celebrates its fourth birthday.... more

Kylie the museum star

25.10.06
Kylie Minogue is to be immortalised as an artistic icon with an exhibition at the V&A of outfits, photographs and accessories that have defined her career.... more

Jam and Jerusalem in Renaissance Italy

09.10.06
Women's Institute stalwarts and devotees of car-boot sales will flock to the V&A's new exhibition of Renaissance home life. The sane man, sceptical, may be less enchanted, says Brian Sewell.... more


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