Exposition posters: dreaming of the future
The exhibitions, expositions and world’s fairs staged around the globe during the 20th century were spectacular, po…
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Painted scroll depicting the September 11 attacks …
Painted scrolls have been used in Bengal in eastern India for centuries as a means of telling religious stories and…
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V&A in North America
The V&A has deep and long standing relationships with museums and audiences across America, facilitating research, …
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Out of LondonParis and New York 1965–1968
Until the 1960s, London' s clothing industry operated in the shadow of the great Parisian couturiers. But sudd…
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Photographs by Gregory Crewdson
Gregory Crewdson reworks the American suburb into a stage-set for the inexplicable, often disturbing, events that t…
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'The Osama scroll', painted scroll by Madhu Chitrakar, 2004
Painted scrolls have been used in Bengal in eastern India for centuries as a means of telling religious stories and also of informing people about important current events. The attacks on New York on September 11th 2001 quickly became the subject of scroll paintings.
Curtis Moffat: biography
Curtis Moffat was born in 1887 into a wealthy New York family. He was raised in Brittany and attended boarding school in the United States.
Art Deco
The term Art Deco, coined in the 1960s, refers to a style that spanned the boom of the roaring 1920s and the bust of the Depression-ridden 1930s. It was the style of the flapper girl and the factory, the luxury ocean liner and the skyscraper, the fantasy world of Hollywood and the real world of the Harlem Renaissance. Art Deco was modern and it was everywhere.
Fashion in 1960s London
This section explores the development of Sixties fashion from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s, linking it to London's different fashion districts.
Silk velvet evening gown, by Stern Bros, about 1894
This sumptuous evening dress has huge puffed sleeves which were highly fashionable during the mid 1890s.
British Design 1948–2012: Innovation in the Modern Age
31 March–12 August 2012
Showcasing over 300 British design objects, this exhibition celebrates the best of British post-war art and design from the 1948 ‘Austerity Games' to the summer of 2012.
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The Royal Mail Line to New York (Custom print)
The Royal Mail Line to New York (A3 Print, Satin Finish)
Buy nowEvent - 1900 Cities: The City at the Turn of the Century, from Paris to New York
Tue 25 September 2012 14:00
SHORT COURSE: The years around 1900 represent one of the most vibrant and exciting periods in the history of art and design, when tradition and modernity collide and when the decadence of the fin de siecle encounters the optimism of a new millennium.
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