Should museums in London start charging (again) for entry? Life&Style Our museums are struggling to scrape by – but is charging admission really the answer? Eliot Wilson weighs up the arguments Neil MacGregor celebrated his 80th birthday this week. The Glasgow-born art historian, considered by Sir Anthony Blunt at the Courtauld Institute the most brilliant pupil he ever taught, has exercised an enormous influence on [...]
Music venues are in dire straits: V&A show asks how we can help Life&Style As the V&A opens its Lost Music Venues exhibition, James Balmont asks we can save the grassroots institutions under threat A trip to the V&A often conjures up images of great Renaissance sculptures, haute couture and centuries-old tapestries – but those patronising the Kensington institution this summer will find something very different. In Lost Music [...]
The new V&A East Museum is a bold addition to Stratford Life&Style If the purpose of art is to provoke a reaction, the V&A East Museum manages that feat before you’ve even stepped across its threshold. Design studio O’Donnell + Tuomey’s £135m creation is a mad-looking thing, an impossible collection of angles and aspects, animalesque, squatting on its haunches beside Sadler’s Wells and overlooking West Ham’s London [...]
New V&A East Storehouse is the museum of the future May 28, 2025 The V&A East Storehouse, opening in east London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, redefines the museum experience with unprecedented public access to thousands of artifacts, marking a bold cultural milestone in the £600 million East Bank development, says Justine Simons The museum of the future is here, and guess what? It’s in east London! A quiet [...]