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Festival
The Red Ladies, a group of mysterious identically dressed women, kick of the V&A Performance Festival this spring
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Visual Arts
Black every-men and women mix in with the V&A's permanent sculpture galleries
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K-pop, politics and Parasite are all part of a sensational blockbuster exhibition of Korean culture at V&A
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Dance
May offers some unmissable dance shows
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Dance
Sharon Eyal's L-E-V company returns to Sadler's Wells with Love Chapter 3, the concluding part of her trilogy on love, its fortunes and misfortunes
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Visual Arts
Revisiting menswear from the Renaissance to our digital contemporary time, the V&A’s gorgeous exhibition explores how, as a mirror to masculinity, men’s fashion is inexorably becoming genderless
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This charming little exhibition is a bucolic escape into the poetic and water-coloured world of Beatrix Potter
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Jewellery
This exquisite exhibition at the V&A invites us into the opulent world of Carl Fabergé and his London clientele and reflects on the grand and final days of Imperial Russia.
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Visual Arts
From the re-opening of the Courtauld Gallery to the much-awaited Lubaina Himid exhibition at Tate Modern, here are the most anticipated exhibitions in London this November.
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Design
The V&A's new exhibition explores how a bag is much more than a functional object, but a statement full of symbolic meanings
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Visual Arts
The V&A's Epic Iran exhibition explores 5,000 years of Iranian art, design, and culture through 300 objects in the largest Iranian exhibition in the UK in 88 years
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Design
The heroine of Lewis Carroll’s Alice books has influenced fashion, art and even politics. This blockbuster exhibition at the V&A charts Alice’s enduring appeal
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Fashion
A new exhibition explores the sartorial, aesthetic and social significance of the kimono from the 1660s to the present day
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Netflix
Miles of tulle, exquisite couture and needle-sharp quips provide the pattern for our selection of the best fashion documentaries
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Visual Arts
Your passport to the weird and wonderful world of Tim Walker, the man who brings fashion fairy tales to life
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Fashion
The V&A's Bags: Inside Out exhibition celebrates the wonderful world of bags through 300 objects
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Opera
What went on behind the scenes at the studio of the prolific and inventive Leonardo da Vinci? This new opera brings the artist's notebooks to life
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Design
The V&A's exhibition on the history of the car tackles much more than just fancy engines
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Visual Arts
The V&A’s Renaissance Watercolours will bring together 200 masterpieces to reveal the subtle beauty and important functions of this under appreciated art form
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Visual Arts
From giant squid and Renaissance chapels, there's a lot more to the best permanent museum exhibitions in London than you might think
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There's another chance to come worship at the altar of Frida Kahlo in a rare exhibition of her wardrobe and possessions
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Looking for a museum experience unlike any other? Try an Uncomfortable Art Tour
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Dance
Choreographer Sharon Eyal returns to Sadler’s Wells with Love Chapter 2, a hypnotic short work for her own company L-E-V
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Shopping
Get your Frida fix ahead of one of the best London museum exhibitions of the year
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New V&A museum exhibition explores the power of design and technology in shaping the future of our world – It's got honourable ambitions, but unfortunately lands a little flat
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An exhibition that shocks, inspires, and leaves you with the unshakeable urge to reconsider your wardrobe
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Visual Arts
The V&A's fashion exhibition will have you cooing over cocoon coats, baby doll dresses and magnificent hats
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Closing its doors this weekend, we look back at the most stylish exhibition on now with the V&A's fashion curator, Cassie Davies-Strodder
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Design
Smashing all expectations, the V&A's first major exhibition of 2018 is fun, glitzy, and really quite a ride. Bon Voyage
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Opera
400 years, 7 operas, and a display spanning geography, history and art: the V&A and Royal Opera House collaborate to stage the first blockbuster exhibition on opera
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Visual Arts
Tim Blanks chats to J.W. Anderson, the British high fashion innovator, about his cutting-edge craft
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Fashion
Frida Kahlo's wardrobe, Orla Kiely's designs, Burberry's master plans – here's what's happening in fashion in 2018