Victoria & Albert Museum
The consensus is that one of the world’s greatest museums, the V&A, has lost its way. A strong leader is needed.
Decorative arts flagship seeks captain who believes in its contents and curators
Thefts from UK national museums. Question in Parliament uncovers extensive losses
13 paintings from the National Maritime Museum, a £100,000 chest from the British Museum, and a Burne-Jones panel from the V&A are some of the items stolen
Books: Hilary Young, English porcelain, 1745-95
Identifying the common circumstances behind the 18th-century ceramics industry
V&A looking for new director
Alan Borg's contract extended until next year
In an attempt to find works of art that may have been stolen by the Nazis ten British museums have named 350 works of art whose history between 1933 and 1945 is uncertain
British provenance probes
“Art nouveau” at the V&A and “1900” at the Grand Palais. Unity of the arts
Artists and designers 100 years ago were united in their embrace of modernity
Decisive moments: the history of photography at the V&A
How photographers from 1845 to the present have reflected time
Ninetieth-birthday tributes to Cartier-Bresson at the V&A
The exhibition includes many highlights from the immense collection
Book Review: Pewter at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Anthony North uses the collection to illustrate the history of pewter design and decoration
The Victoria and Albert Museum. The great Kensington Kunstkammer
The museum and the Great Exhibition from which it derives are the subject of five new books
V&A off limits to women in 1913?
Museums considered banning female visitors at height of suffrage movement
British art swaps at the Tate Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum
Constables go to Tate and eighteenth-century works to V&A
Two mega-donations for London museum expansions
With £20 million each, plans progress for the British Museum Great Court and the V&A's spiral
“Private dreams and unknowable pleasures” in early photography
Clementina, Lady Hawarden, a forgotten precursor of Julia Margaret Cameron, is the subject of this book and of the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition
Subcontinental splendour at the Victoria & Albert Museum
An exhibition of Sikh treasures casts new light upon the art of an Indian culture better known for its war-like tendencies
From the secret archives of the Victoria and Albert Museum: flinging more than a paint pot
The opening of a file on James McNeill Whistler, embargoed for a century, reveals him to have been a violent brawler, a racist and a gun-runner
V&A Director Alan Borg says, “The idea of keeping museums separate from the trade needs to disappear, particularly for the contemporary world”
V&A edges toward the cutting edge—and commerce
It was good for me: Seven London dealers review the past year
The state of the trade according to Lisson, Besson, Colnaghi and others
The Art Newspaper’s own artistic gourmet, Alex Wengraf takes lunch and postprandial coffee at the V&A
The ruling: Museum food is tasteful and tasty
Thefts from V&A and Courtauld Gallery
Two Constables and three small paintings discovered to be missing from storage
In my opinion. V&A Libeskind too “metaphorical”
A former keeper offers some practical suggestions
A campaign is underway to raise funds for the conservation of Sir George Gilbert Scott’s metalwork masterpiece, the Hereford Screen
Since its removal from Hereford Cathedral over three decades ago, it has languished in store, slowly deteriorating.
Grinling Gibbons, a superstar rediscovered at the V&A
Fires at the Pitti Palace and Hampton Court have led to this survey of baroque sculptor, Grinling Gibbons
Portrait miniatures, Little England
Three books demonstrate the revival of interest in portrait miniatures and the leading role of the Victoria and Albert Museum in this field
V&A British Galleries delay
£12 million required to complete refurbishment project.