FuturePlan updates
FuturePlan updates
News and updates from FuturePlan projects.
Monday, October 10, 2011 - 14:28
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By Reena Suleman, Project Coordinator at the V&A
I joined the V&A just over a year ago and was thrilled to learn that I was going to be working on the Cast Courts project. Their vast spaces and monumental reproductions of some of the worlds most well known pieces of sculpture and architecture have long been a source of fascination over the years on my many visits to the museum...
Friday, September 30, 2011 - 15:36
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By Melanie Vandenbrouck-Przybylski
When I have a spare moment, I try and go to our Blythe road premises, to do some research on the Cast Courts in the V&A Archives. Ahead of my visits, my colleagues James Sutton and Nicholas Smith have helpfully been digging information about the building of the Cast Courts, the acquisition of the objects, correspondence with the cast-makers. Among the...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 - 13:50
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By Sarah Healey, Sculpture Conservator at the V&A.
We, the Sculpture studio in Conservation department, are really happy to contribute to the project blog and welcome this initiative taken by Melanie, the assistant curator to the project.
For us in the studio the blog is an experiment and offers, we hope, some possibilities for elements of our work on the project to be shared. We...
Monday, September 12, 2011 - 10:24
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By Melanie Vandenbrouck-Przybylski
In all museums, no matter how big or small, there’s always a time when you make a ‘discovery’ as you stumble upon a piece tucked away in a corner by long-gone curators. Store auditings – a slow, painstaking process, but not without surprises – are propitious times for such encounters to happen. As part of the renovation of the...
Friday, September 2, 2011 - 11:01
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By Melanie Vandenbrouck-Przybylski
First opened in 1873 at the heart of the building, the V&A’s Cast Courts are two gigantic day-lit galleries, separated by a corridor and filled with copies of some of Europe’s most famous sculptures and monuments. Housed in a dramatic space, these objects have come to speak to each other in unrivalled ways, while their illustrious originals...