Tag: Museums
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Cartier diamond ring worth £750,000 lost by British Museum
Jewellery went missing in 2011 and prompts calls for increased security at central London museum
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V&A exhibition sets sail for glory days of luxury ocean liners
On show will be luggage belonging to the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson as well as wooden panels from the Titanic
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Send me a masterpiece: the museum texting its artworks to anyone who asks
Fancy a Lichtenstein? How about a Warhol? San Francisco’s MoMA will now send you anything from its collection – all you have to do is ask the artbot
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Car, shed … elevator? The Los Angeles art spaces proving smaller is better
A range of alternative galleries have sprung up in the city, creating micro-museums that offer unique experiences not found in ‘white-walled galleries’
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The V&A’s £55m new courtyard: ‘Like a Marbella beach bar airlifted to South Ken’
Amanda Levete’s dazzling new porcelain piazza brilliantly reunites the museum with the Kensington streets. But the giant new jewellery box of a gallery lurking below ground is the real star of the show
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Google puts three millennia of fashion at our fingertips: Why we wear what we wear
“We wear culture”, says Google at the launch of its new project on Google Arts & Culture. “We wear culture” brings the stories behind the clothes you wear. The aim is to discover why we wear what we wear. More than 180 museums, fashion institutions, and other organizations from New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, São…