Tag: Museums
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10 of the best museum shops around the world
It’s not always a case of avoiding the ‘exit through the gift store’ bit. These striking and creatively stocked museum shops are worth a visit in their own right• What are your favourite museum shops? Let us know where and why in the comments below
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Museum of Tomorrow: a captivating invitation to imagine a sustainable world
Rio de Janeiro’s new museum, focusing on ideas rather than objects, ecology more than technology, is a little trippy, a little hippy, very worthy but rarely dull
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From baroque to bling: how France became king of high style
In early modern Europe, as political power shifted, one country became a leader in luxury. Now the V&A’s new galleries reveal how, through conflict and colonialism, France gained its artistic supremacy
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A feminist Pirelli calendar and the rise of Donald Dump – the week in art
Pirelli has a bit of a gear change with Annie Leibovitz’s portraits. Plus a high-speed tour of Art Basel Miami Beach, and how Donald Trump the pottymouth sparked an art movement – all in your weekly art dispatch
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A brief history of underwear: V&A exhibition goes big on the smalls
London museum to showcase fashion’s supporting cast, from 19th-century whalebone corsets and bustles to David Beckham’s modern boxers
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V&A reconsidering offer of Margaret Thatcher collection
Museum signals it might be willing to accept collection of late former prime minister following criticism from Tory MPs and public