The Victoria & Albert Museum hosted the three best-attended exhibitions in London this year. “Alexander Mcqueen: Savage Beauty” show at V&A Museum was the most popular London exhibition in 2014/2015, according to a survey by LondonExhibitions. A total of 493,043 tickets were sold for the show, making it the V&A’s most popular exhibition in its … Read more
A bubble-bath necklace? A DNA vending machine? An unwearable gold hat that took 12 years to weave? Through a collection of priceless, pointless and surprising objects, the V&A’s new exhibition asks: what is luxury?
What is Luxury? (25 April – 27 September 2015, a V&A and Crafts Council Exhibition) will interrogate ideas of luxury today. Victoria and Albert Museum asks ‘What is Luxury?‘ and how it relates to our everyday lives in a new exhibition challenging our definitions of what luxury means. “As its title suggests, the exhibition questions … Read more