Costume design by Léon Bakst for Papillon in Le Carnaval a ballet included in the first performance by the Ballets Russes in London in 1911.V&A Images On the eve of...
Serge Lifar and Alexandra Danilova as Apollo and Terpsichore in Apollon musagète, 1928. Photo Sacha, V&A images One of the on-going complaints about the exhibition...
Image: April Greiman with Jayme Odgers, poster for Cal Arts,...
Carlotta Brianza as Carabosse with her entourage of rats in the opening scene of The Sleeping Princess 1921 @ V&A Images Following on from the entry A treat on screen and the...
As I continue to get so many requests for information about Richard Buckle’s The Diaghilev Exhibition at Forbes House exhibition I thought I’d share with you a few...
I am still getting complains why don’t we include film of Nijinsky dancing in the exhibition. My response is if I’d found such film, unless it was truly ghastly,...
Design by Léon Bakst for Felicita in The Good-Humoured Ladies (1917) V&A images Happy Christmas! Its taken me a long time to notice that on the Christmas Tree in the...
Postcard showing photograph by Bassano of Tamara Karsavina and Adolph Bolm in The Firebird It is so satisfying when everything links up. I go to the Canaletto at the National...
The idea for a major exhibition about the Aesthetic Movement was first discussed almost five years ago so there is certainly lots to fill you in on. Through this blog I want to...
The imperial robes arrived in London on 19th November. When they came out of the crates every member of the installation team was stunned by their beauty. This was not the first...
There are certain questions one gets asked several times and one of these is why is the start of the exhibition red? The simple answer is it is theatrical. Red is a colour...
Ted (left) and Paul with a big foot and the signature Last week, as I dashed off to New York, two of the flymen who worked at the July 1968 Ballets Russes auction at the Scala...
http://vimeo.com/16726957Now that there is only three and a half weeks left to catch this exhibition I thought we’d go back to the beginning and show you the video made at...
One quick definition of graphic design: putting images and text together. Of course, not every graphic includes words, but most do - and it's one of the most challenging, and...
There is now less than a month to go to see the Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes 1909-1929 exhibition and its good to find that we are still getting (mostly)...
'Capture', a new installation at The Gopher Hole Gallery Gallery opening hours: 10am-6pm Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Exhibition runs until February 13th 2011....
A further aspect to the design and curation of this exhibition, will be a multi-media timeline which will highlight aspects of Yohji Yamamoto’s wider creative output. As I...
Birmingham 2009/10 For eight months I livedon a street just off spaghetti junction on the M6. At the bottom of theinterchange was a row of semi-detached houses, which I passed...
Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of attending Yohji Yamamoto’s Spring/Summer 2011 Menswear show. This was particularly interesting for two reasons. First of all, as...
As the V&A is currently more or less barricaded by road works making it a dangerous place to reach, the entrance along the South Kensington Tunnel has been opened early for...
Once the object selection is finalised, we have to go through a process of assessing mannequins. Finding the right mannequin is more complex than it looks. After gathering and...
Independent of, and yet extending the Ballets Russes exhibition, a Kinoscope, a contemporary re-imagining of the Kinetoscope peephole projector invented by Thomas Edison and...
In an attempt to organize and group the objects, and decide on the themes represented in the exhibition, the product of days spent in the archives is a so-called 'pin-up'....
This guest post has been contributed by RCA/V&A History of Design graduate Charlotte Austin. How would you describe your location in a world without house numbers? What if...
Costumes from The Rite of Spring 1913 The last two weeks have seen a positive flood of presentations on the exhibition with tours for special groups and up to three talks a day....
'Shadow Box' performance set in the Cast Courts at the V&A MuseumImages by V&A photographer Peter...
The original French Manager from Parade at rest 1917 Photo by Lachmann V&A images (The original glass plates for this series of photographs are in the Theatre &...
After months of commissioning, writing and editing, it has arrived: the colour proof of the Yohji Yamamoto exhibition book : Art direction by Peter Saville and beautifully...
Since working on this exhibition I have asked myself more than once: what did a Chinese emperor do to govern a country with a population of a hundred million (that was the figure...
On Friday ‘ES’ the colour supplement that accompanies the London Evening Standard included a feature of what to buy for Christmas. Among its recommendations was a page...