Victoria & Albert Museum

American photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Vernacular aesthetics and aesthetic vernacular

The organisers propose an opposition between “vernacular” and “aesthetic” photography but the images do not allow it

Gilbert collection of gold and silver to go to Medici palace as well as the V&A

Timothy Schroder named curator for the collection, and will start work on the Somerset House displays

Booksarchive

Pilars, Doloreses, Imaculadas etc catalogued at the V&A

Includes a selection of masterpieces of Spanish sculpture

The V&A introduces a £5 admission fee

Income from tickets represented about double the average weekly level of voluntary contributions.

Booksarchive

Books: Pugin’s Gothic genius

Two books accompanying recent museum shows

V&A embarks on big loan show to Baltimore on the history of the museum itself

It will be the first time that an institution has allowed the story of its acquisitions to be subjected to such intense inquiry

William Morris any way you like at the V&A

A major survey that leaves interpretation of his achievements to the visitor

Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelites light up the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

This year appears to be the year of the Pre-Raphaelite, with yet another major show on the way

Small dip in V&A numbers...

But Apsley House reaches record numbers following restoration

The unknown art of Indian Jainism at the V&A

About six million Indians follow this faith, but its art and beliefs are very little known to many in the west

Victoria and Albert loses out on William Morris collection

Berger collection to go to Huntington after two-year silence from the London museum

Raphaelarchive

Experts suggest Raphael's cartoons conceived as rivals to Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel

Detailed study of the V&A's Raphael cartoons suggests he painted them as independent works of art

V&A exhibition proves Wedgwood has gone to pot

The current exhibition highlights just how weak the products of the modern company are

London, Alan Borg—a safe choice for the Victoria and Albert Museum

Medievalist director of the Imperial War Museum, an able fund-raiser, chosen by the Trustees

V&A, Grace notes

Canova's masterpiece at rest at last

Indian Christmas at the V&A

Exhibition of Kalighat painting to tour the UK

Pugin, founder of modernism, in a riot of polychromy at the V&A

A major survey of the high priest of the Gothic Revival