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Tuesday, September 4, 2012 - 13:48
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The Europe 1600-1800 Galleries are a series of seven galleries running between the Museum’s two main entrances in Cromwell Road and Exhibition Road. Their renovation is a part of FuturePlan, a Museum-wide project to create beautiful and contemporary new settings for the V&A’s outstanding collections, while restoring much of the building’s original architecture and improving...
Monday, August 6, 2012 - 18:13
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So many great images have been contributed to the Collect London 2012 project (see last post) that I couldn't resist putting a few more on the blog. Have a look at the Flickr group and add your own images from the last two weeks. The aim is to create an archive of photos that will preserve a snapshot of some of the more peripheral visual aspects of the London Games: Olympic-related signage,...
Wednesday, August 1, 2012 - 22:21
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We need your images for this project!Conversations with colleagues in recent weeks have turned to the question of how do you 'collect' the Olympic Games? In terms of graphics, there are certainly individual bits of printed design (posters, tickets and so on) from the London 2012 Games that can and should be accessioned by a museum of art and design. But for an event so extraordinary in...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012 - 19:41
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On top of a road sign near Brick Lane in London last week an unofficial street art tribute was erected to Tommie Smith - one of two black American athletes who famously used an Olympic podium at the Mexico City Games in 1968 to stage a demonstration against racial discrimination in the United States. As the American national anthem played, Smith and John Carlos (gold and bronze medallists in the...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012 - 19:37
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When the Olympic Torch Relay arrived in London, the official London 2012 website declared that 'London's moment to shine is here'. Early on in the history of the modern Olympic Games host cities realised that the Games were a chance to project a message of both civic and national pride to the rest of the world. Many Olympic posters present host cities through images of skylines,...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012 - 19:36
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This is the second in a series of posts looking at Olympic posters from the V&A collectionPosters are one of the objects that preserve a material memory of an Olympic Games long after the athletes and audiences have dispersed and the event is over. There are also a number of ghost posters for Olympic Games that never happened because the weight of world events intervened. Helsinki would have...
Friday, July 20, 2012 - 15:42
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As I sit down to write the first entry for this blog, London is buzzing with Olympic fever: there is only one day left to go before the opening of the London 2012 Olympic Games. This presents me with a perfect opening subject - especially as Olympic posters are an area of the collection that we’ve been focussing on for some time at the V&A.When London won the bid to host the London 2012...
Friday, July 6, 2012 - 10:37
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Guest blog entry by Frances Allitt In the painting below, a girl dressed in a delicate lace collar stares off to the left of the viewer. Though her identity is now lost, the girl remains enchanting to behold. Framing her face are two pearl earrings and, around her neck, a double string of pearls.V&A Inventory Number P.52-1962Gerrit von Honthorst, A Young Girl Wearing a Lace CollarOil on oak...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012 - 09:17
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SOFA New York 2012: The International Exposition of Sculpture Objects & Functional Art, Park Avenue Armory.A pair of lead textile pieces informed by V&A research were featured in the VIP Lounge at SOFA New York in April.browngrotta arts presented my work . On the booth they showed the tapestry ‘Line’ (first exhibited at the V&A in 2005), ‘Calculus’ + two new...
Friday, June 1, 2012 - 13:31
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Guest blog entry by Bryony Bartlett-RawlingsDuring the first weekend of June 2012 Britain will embrace a mood of celebration as it celebrates the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. The festivities will include street parties throughout the country and the Regatta on Sunday 3rd June will be one of the largest flotillas ever assembled in London on the river Thames. Such celebrations have long been a...