ARTISTS
2025
Photography is ubiquitous. It shapes the way we see, remember and understand the world.
V&A South Kensington has been a museum dedicated to design since long before the Design Museum was conceived, making it the perfect hub for promoting creativity in the capital during the annual London Design Festival.
This September, the V&A unveils The Ripple Effect鈥攁 newly commissioned ceramic installation by Polish artist and designer Alicja Patanowska, created for the John Madejski Garden as part of the programme curated by the V&A for London Design Festival 2025.
Opening in September 2025 at V&A South Kensington, Marie Antoinette Style will be the UK鈥檚 first exhibition on the French queen Marie Antoinette. The exhibition will explore the origins and countless revivals of the style shaped by the most fashionable queen in history.
Prix Pictet is the world鈥檚 leading award for photography and sustainability. Here鈥檚 how the 2025 shortlist responded to this cycle鈥檚 theme, 鈥楽torm.鈥�
Today, the V&A announces its David Bowie Centre, opening 13 September 2025 at V&A East Storehouse, will feature an exclusive guest-curated display by Multiple award-winning musician, producer, songwriter and David Bowie-collaborator, Nile Rodgers.
The weekly feature rounds up the latest updates in museum appointments, openings, funding and new exhibitions from across the UK.
V&A South Kensington opened Design and Disability, an exhibition that centres disability as an identity and culture through design.
鈥淎n act of joy and resistance.鈥� This is how Natalie Kane, Curator of Digital Design at V&A, describes Design and Disability, the museum鈥檚 latest show.
The weekly feature rounds up the latest updates in museum appointments, openings, funding and new exhibitions from across the UK.
The聽V & A is the world鈥檚 largest museum of聽applied arts,聽decorative arts聽and聽design, with 145 galleries housing a permanent collection of approaching three聽million objects. But how does it fare if judged as a fine art gallery?聽 Pretty well, for three reasons.
V&A Dundee鈥檚 show boasts more than 400 objects that range from scythes and hoes to a Barbara Hepworth 鈥� it鈥檚 uneven, but it stays with you.
Two significant artworks from the late Jacob Rothschild鈥檚 collection have been allocated to national museums through the Acceptance in Lieu scheme, settling 拢6.72m in tax.
Review The Edwardians: Age of Elegance; Cartier review 鈥� excess all areas King鈥檚 Gallery, Buckingham Palace; V&A, London British royal history in the era of Faberg茅, photography, empire, war and tiny waists is an expertly spangled soap opera.
Opening this Saturday, the V&A will stage the UK鈥檚 first major exhibition in nearly 30 years dedicated to Cartier jewels and watches, exploring how the Maison became an unparalleled force in the jewellery and watch world.