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Friday, November 30, 2012 - 14:48
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By Cara Williams, Schools Programmes Manager.Creative Quarter, the V&A’s flagship event for secondary schools and colleges, took place on Friday 16th November and was attended by 30 schools from around London and further afield. A total of 3,600 young people participated in talks, workshops and drop-in events throughout the day.The day gave students the chance to find out about...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012 - 14:32
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By Nick Barnard, Curator, South and South East Asia. The V&A has recently acquired a large and splendid painting of Shatrunjaya Hill in Gujarat, one of the holiest Jain sites. Thousands of pilgrims climb up to the temples on top of the hills by a path with over 3,000 steps. Today (28 November 2012) is Kartik Purnima, the special day when these paintings are hung up and venerated in Jain...
Thursday, November 22, 2012 - 15:24
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Guest blog entry by Bryony Bartlett-RawlingsA number of ornament engravings in the V&A collection dating to the 16th- and 17th centuries by Dutch and Flemish printmakers including Nicolaes de Bruyn, Anton Wierex, Jan Sadeler, and Theodor de Bry incorporate still life motifs. V&A inventory number 24359.9Theodor de Bry, Mustapha Bassa, Illustration to 'Vitae et icones Sultanorum...
Thursday, November 22, 2012 - 14:49
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By Alex Flowers, Digital Programmes Manager.Smart clothing, e-textiles and soft circuits are all upcoming trends in the way we look at fashion design, the functions of clothes and of fabrics. Apart from keeping warm and looking pretty that is. Smart textiles incorporate electronic components into their construction in some way add other functionality to it. These may be seamlessly integrated and...
Thursday, November 22, 2012 - 11:40
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By Adrian Deakes, Performance Education Manager.As I mentioned in my previous post, it’s important that, when running events here, they have a strong relevance for the Museum and its collections. The National Video Archive of Performance (NVAP for short) is the V&A’s national collection of live recordings filmed in theatres around the country. Starting in 1992, it is now an...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012 - 13:23
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On Friday 9 November I was invited to give the keynote speech at the Museums Association conference. Here is that speech in full for you to read...It’s always a pleasure to come to Edinburgh. And it is a double pleasure to be invited here to meet so many of my friends in the Museums Association. I want to use this opportunity, if I may, to reflect on the role of museums in a time of...
Friday, November 2, 2012 - 11:32
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Advanced notice of temporary website disruptionOn Friday 2 November and Sunday 4 November 2012, the Museum will be undertaking essential work to update technical infrastructure in the building. This will affect access to some services that are delivered on the web.On Sunday this work is scheduled to start at 17.30 and be completed by approximately 9.00 on Monday 5 November.The main website will...
Friday, October 26, 2012 - 10:16
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Advanced notice of temporary website disruptionOn Saturday 27 October 2012, the Museum will be undertaking essential work to update technical infrastructure in the building. This will affect access to some services that are delivered on the web. This work is scheduled to start at 09.00 and be completed by approximately 23.00.The main website will be partially available:The Home Page, Visit Us and...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 12:02
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By David Judd Creative Projects Manager – Learning DepartmentOn Sunday 30 September over 13,000 people took part in the Big Draw, Big Make events at the V&A in a frenzy of sketching, scribbling, stenciling and stiching! The day focussed on showing how important drawing is for design and got visitors involved by giving everyone a portfolio, pencil and paper to go out into the galleries...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - 13:26
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Guest blog entry by Phoebe LindsleyA number of ornament prints in the V&A collection are designs for cartouches. A cartouche is an elaborate, often scrolled, framing device that quickly became an integral ornamental feature from the 16th century onwards. It has been suggested that the cartouche developed from the flattened oval shape used to highlight the names of royalty in Ancient Egyptian...