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Writing from curators and department experts. These stories range from new discoveries about objects, to behind-the-scenes life at the museum.

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Rebecca Stevenson / Our Shifting Perspectives Resident

I’m excited to announce Rebecca Stevenson as the V&A Shifting Perspectives Resident. Rebecca is a sculptor based in London who makes work with a variety of media, including...

Friday Late

Friday Late is back for 2022!

Diamante toast and fried egg with 'FRIDAY LATE' in yellow text over the top

Friday Late: ‘spirit moves’ by anaiis

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V&A South Kensington Youth Collective

Co-designing and collaborating with young people for Africa Fashion

Co-design member smiling, whilst holding an Africa Fashion exhibition mannequin head

Advice on Creative Careers

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From the learning department

Rebecca Stevenson / Our Shifting Perspectives Resident

I’m excited to announce Rebecca Stevenson as the V&A Shifting Perspectives Resident. Rebecca is a sculptor based in London who makes work with a variety of media, including...

Nurturing creative confidence in early years: A virtual conversation

May half-term 2023

News from the Learning Department

Announcing our V&A Innovate National Schools Challenge 2022 – 23 winners!

V&A Innovate National Schools Challenge 2022 – 2023 shortlist announced

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V&A Illustration Awards

How to… Make your Illustration Award entry stand out from the crowd

The V&A 2024 Illustration Awards have launched!

The V&A Illustration Awards need you!

In conversation with Kerry Hyndman, Book Cover Award winner 2022

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Photography

Photography Centre browsing library – Kraszna Krausz Foundation

New photography acquisition: ‘Ghostwriter’ by Sheida Soleimani

We were making history: women in the farmers’ movement

Photography Centre browsing library – Aperture

Miles Aldridge in conversation

A woman in yellow sprawled on a brightly checked floor

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Artists in Residence at the V&A

Artists in Residence at the V&A

Florence Dwyer: DesignLab Nation resident

Artists in Residence at the V&A

Introducing the Adobe Creative Residency Programme

Artists in Residence at the V&A

Rebecca Stevenson / Our Shifting Perspectives Resident

Artists in Residence at the V&A

Open call: apply for a new shifting perspectives residency

Artists in Residence at the V&A

Call-out for two VARI Residencies: Championing Newham’s histories of making and manufacture

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Sculpture

A sculpture merging Jamaican culture with utility

A wooden cylindrical lamp stand, with a face and body, lizard, and snake carved into it

Photographing the Ascension

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Furniture and Woodwork

Design and society

An experiment in the forest

Caring for our collections

Imaging and Imagining Grinling Gibbons’ Limewood Cravat

Carved limewood cravat

V&A East | Kaufmann Office

Caring for our collections

How to deinstall a complicated object

Furniture and Woodwork

Luterma plywood bags

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Gilbert Gems

Gilbert and Gems

Portuguese royal silver in the Gilbert Collection

Gilbert and Gems

Cognitive Stimulation Therapy and Dementia at the V&A

Gilbert and Gems

‘Place to Place’, by Adi Toch

Caring for our collections

To loan, or not to loan?

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The National Art Library

National Art Library and Archive talks: each Monday from January 15th

Come and ‘meet the librarians’ this December

It was great to have a chance to chat to our users at our first ‘meet the librarians’ session, held in October. Feedback was heard and gratefully received. Once we...

National Art Library Christmas closure dates 2023

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Theatre and Performance

Caring for our collections

A New Hope: reassembling a Stormtrooper costume

Ernest Thesiger: Singularly sybaritic

Celebrating 150 Years of the Royal Albert Hall. 1/12: The Great Organ

The Royal Albert Hall's great Organ

Performing porcelain

Three figures from the V&A superimposed on to a table top

Our Hackney Empire

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Out in the Museum

Transgender Awareness Week

Print of the month

Out at Young V&A: LGBTQ+ stories for children and young people

New York’s Most Exciting Discotheque?

Blood Equality posters

Chez Madame Palmyre

Ernest Thesiger: Singularly sybaritic

Caring for our collections

Marie Laurencin and the lesbian Left Bank

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V&A Faces

A day in the life of a V&A guide

Giving talks at the V&A during a pandemic

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