That’s a wrap for the future: looking back at the V&A’s ‘The Future Starts Here’
‘The Future Starts Here’ is a design exhibition reminiscent of the stories told about the World’s Fair. Futuristic, exciting, baffling, and at times intimidating advancements in design sometimes offer...
View ArticleSomenotsukasa Yoshioka: a workshop ‘In Search of Forgotten Colours’
The 19th-century saw the industrialization of various manufacturing processes. One of which was the way in which materials were dyed. In the mid-1800s, the creation of synthetic dyes slowly pushed the...
View ArticleCould high-tech copies be the solution for the return of colonial artefacts?
“Africa is empty of its riches,” Beninese artist Thierry Oussou told the Guardian earlier this year in an interview. “When young students wish to write about the treasures of their homeland, they have...
View Article2018 Museum Trends: Fashion and Social Interaction
Whether through social media engagement, immersive exhibitions, or fashion-forward thinking, art museums are creating novel opportunities to interact with artwork and with that increasing visitorship...
View ArticlePortrait of Kevin Spacey at the V&A museum raises questions
London’s Victoria & Albert Museum is facing a backlash for planning to exhibit a portrait of the now-disgraced American actor Kevin Spacey in a show set to open in late April. The actor is...
View ArticleThe Met is no longer taking money from the Sackler family
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City says it will no longer accept any donations from the notorious Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharma who have been ridden with controversy due to...
View ArticleCollecting current history on climate change at the V&A
There are moments in history where it has been clear that history is being made. In 1963 when Martin Luther King Jr said ‘I Have a Dream’ or as the Apollo 11 made a successful moon landing where Neil...
View ArticleTate Modern edges out British Museum for top attendance spot
Drum roll, please… Recently, Visit England, a tourism organization, released the findings of their survey assessing what museums were most popular in 2018. The report found that Tate Modern saw an...
View ArticleIt’s New York Fashion Week, so we’re looking atwhere fashion and art collide
As New York Fashion Week kicks off, it seems fitting to look at some of the ways in which the art world and fashion world have collided in recent months. Naturally, they’re never far apart as the...
View Article‘Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams’ sets V&A attendance record
In February, the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London kicked off their exhibition ‘Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams.’ They knew going in that the exhibition would be a popular one but they...
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Art World Roundup: new exhibition highlights female artists, Banksy claims...
In this week’s Art World Roundup, we cover “Heart of the Matter,” a new online exhibition at the Gillian Jason Gallery in support of International Women’s Day, a Trump executive order that’s been...
View ArticleThe Art of the Game: in-game photography makes way for blurry lines between...
What constitutes art and can video games fall into the confines of it as a category? This question is quite frankly one that verges on that which is trite and it capable of making your head spin. Video...
View ArticleThat’s a wrap for the future: looking back at the V&A’s ‘The Future Starts Here’
‘The Future Starts Here’ is a design exhibition reminiscent of the stories told about the World’s Fair. Futuristic, exciting, baffling, and at times intimidating advancements in design sometimes offer...
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