Tag: Museums
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Fashion designer Anna Sui gets retrospective in London
Show has outfits by American who loves ‘mixing everything together, especially when it doesn’t seem to go together’
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V&A makes case for the rebellious beauty of Balenciaga
It is milder than McQueen, but there are monsters, ghosts and glamour in the museum’s account of a fashion giant
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Put away the gallery guides – art is best when shrouded in mystery
A new app, Smartify, allows you to point your phone at artworks and instantly know everything about them. But while facts can enrich enjoyment, it is the shock of the unknown that really makes art resonate
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V&A hoping for another fashion blockbuster with Balenciaga show
Museum aims to capitalise on label’s current buzz with celebration of original designer’s ‘uncompromising creativity’
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V&A returns Tudor bedroom to original Sizergh Castle setting
London museum formally transfers grand oak-panelled room, for which it paid £1,000 in 1891, to National Trust site in Cumbria
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The young challengers celebrating 10 years of Functional Design Art
By Philippe Mihailovich. Coinciding with the opening of the 2016 edition of the Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain (FIAC) – the international art fair held annually at the Grand Palais in Paris, and this year including Petit Palais and other venues – two young challengers attracted the international art press to their massive new venue “Carpenters Workshop…