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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...

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

Fashion industry insight for students and young people

screengrab of webinar, showing speaker in a window on the right, and a slide from her presentation featuring a black and white outfit on the left

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V&A Illustration Awards

In conversation with Kerry Hyndman, Book Cover Award winner 2022

In conversation with Gérard Dubois, Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year 2022

The winners of the V&A Illustration Awards 2022

Illustration from My Name is not Refugee by Kate Milner. Illustration shows refugees in sleeping bags

Design and society

V&A Illustration Awards: In conversation with Kate Milner (Student Illustrator of the Year 2016)

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Photography

The Royal Photographic Society Library at V&A South Kensington – coming soon!

Design and society

2023 Winners: V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography

Caring for our collections

Museum photography: Now and then

Shortlist 2023 / Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography

Hoda Afshar in conversation

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Artists in Residence at the V&A

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

Artists in Residence at the V&A

Open call: apply for a new digital wonderlands residency

Artists in Residence at the V&A

Sourcing beauty: a conversation with Moses Quiquine

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Sculpture

Photographing the Ascension

Investigating an ancient Buddhist sculpture – the Longmen Grottoes

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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

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?

Gilbert and Gems

Concealed Histories: Uncovering the Story of Nazi Looting

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The National Art Library

The Royal Photographic Society Library at V&A South Kensington – coming soon!

Literature lists or ‘Course Reserves’ at the National Art Library

Time it right at the National Art Library

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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

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

News and Updates

Queer Expressions: LGBT History Month, Sat 24th February

Figure 4. The Butler Bowden Cope, T.36-1955, on display in the exhibition

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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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