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      <title>Surreal Things: Surrealism and Design</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The V&A's major spring exhibition, Surreal Things, will be the first to explore the influence of Surrealism on the world of design - theatre, interiors, fashion, film, architecture, and advertising. Alongside paintings by Magritte, Ernst and Dalí will be some of the most extraordinary objects of the 20th century, from Dalí's Mae West Lips sofa and Lobster Telephone to Elsa Schiaparelli's dramatic 'Tear' and 'Skeleton' dresses, and Meret Oppenheim's Table with Bird's Legs.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Beyond The Maker&apos;s Mark: Paul de Lamerie</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Beyond the Maker's Mark: Paul de Lamerie Silver in the Cahn Collection is a new display at the V&A celebrating the extraordinary work of Paul de Lamerie (1688-1751), London's leading 18th-century silversmith. The display will include around 50 pieces of de Lamerie silver from the Cahn Collection, currently on loan to the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee, who have organized this touring display.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:50:39 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Exhibition: At Home in Renaissance Italy</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The riches of the Renaissance interior, and its central role in the flowering of Italian art and culture, will be the subject of a V&A exhibition this autumn. Masterpieces by Donatello, Carpaccio, Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Lotto, Titian and Veronese, and exquisite treasures once in the Medici collections, will show how works of art were originally conceived for affluent Renaissance homes.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:13:09 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Exhibition: Twilight: Photography in the Magic Hour</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This autumn, the V&A will exhibit around 50 works by international contemporary artists who have explored the visual and psychological effects of twilight. Twilight: Photography in the Magic Hour will include work by established photographers Robert Adams, Gregory Crewdson, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Bill Henson and Boris Mikhailov as well as emerging talents, Chrystel Lebas and Liang Yue and a specially commissioned film installation by Ori Gersht.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:12:29 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Exhibition: Leonardo Da Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design explores for the first time the most fundamental aspect of Leonardo’s work – how he thought on paper. The pages of Leonardo’s notebooks, teeming with multitudinous ideas, are often taken for granted, but they are unparalleled in the graphic work of any other thinker from any age. They deal with mighty inventions, great visions of the earth in age-long transformation, the mysterious governance of mathematical proportion in the design of the universe, the most detailed observations and theories of the motion of waters, meticulous reconstructions of the operation of heart valves, the arts of peace and the science of war.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:12:52 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Gallery: V&amp;A to open Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The V&A will open the new Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art on Thursday 20 July 2006. The highlight will be the Ardabil carpet, the world’s oldest dated carpet, and one of the largest, most beautiful and historically important in the world. Made in Iran in 1539 the carpet will be the centre-piece of the new Jameel Gallery, which has been redesigned so that it can be displayed horizontally at floor level, as it would originally have been. Measuring an impressive 10.5m x 5m and described by William Morris as a design of ‘singular perfection’, it is a masterpiece of Islamic art.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:14:38 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Exhibition: Che Guevara: Revolutionary Icon</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The famous portrait of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, Guerrillero Heroico, photographed by Alberto Korda on 5 March 1960, is one of the most reproduced images in the history of photography. Che Guevara: Revolutionary and Icon will focus on the history of this single image during the past 45 years, bringing together photography, posters, films, fine art, clothing and artefacts from more than 30 countries - from Madonna's album American Life and Jean-Paul Gaultier's sunglasses campaign to Vik Muniz's Che Frijol and Ricky Gervais's Politics dvd.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:15:02 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Exhibition: Sixties Fashion: &apos;Swinging London&apos; fashion on display at the V&amp;A</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[40 years after Time Magazine's famous 1966 'Swinging London' cover, the V&A explores the Swinging Sixties. Sixties Fashion will feature designs by Mary Quant, Ossie Clark, Pierre Cardin and Paco Rabanne among others. The display will explore the role of fashion in fixing the idea of London as the ‘swinging’ city in the popular imagination from the mid 1950s (when Mary Quant established her first boutique) to the early 1970s.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:15:25 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Exhibition: Sixties Graphics</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This summer the V&A will celebrate the 1960s with a display of graphic material including posters, magazines, photographs, album covers and other printed ephemera such as badges from 1965-1972. Sixties Graphics will focus on the huge explosion of talent in London in the mid-sixties, the era of Swinging London. The display will chart the emergence of ‘counter-culture’, the ‘underground press’ and the full flowering of Psychedelia.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:15:45 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Exhibition: &apos;Modernism: Designing a New World&apos;</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The V&A’s major spring exhibition will be Modernism: Designing a New World. It will be the first in-depth look at the movement which revolutionised the world around us and the way we live, giving us fitted kitchens, our obsession with sunbathing and gyms, and our love of clean, minimalist architecture and design.Modernism: Designing a New World will look at the key defining movement of 20th century design, from the white geometric planes of Corbusier’s Modernist houses to streamlined silver cars; from the first Bauhaus steel framed chairs of the 1920s to the smooth surfaces of the first fitted kitchen – all highlighted in the exhibition.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:16:11 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Gallery: Spectacular New Sculpture Galleries at the V&amp;A</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The first phase of the redisplay of the V&A’s outstanding sculpture collection will be completed this March. The new Dorothy and Michael Hintze Galleries will  display  some of the Museum’s finest sculpture dating from 1600 to 1900 made by British sculptors or acquired by British patrons. The galleries have been named in honour of  Dorothy and Michael Hintze who gave a generous donation of £1.5 million through the Hintze Family Charitable Foundation.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:16:36 +0100</pubDate>
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