Head of Content at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London @V_and_A ... incorrect opinions all my own, sadly.
Joined October 2010
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In a very special review-essay for @BSECS Criticks, Karen Lipsedge & Miriam Al Jamil use the @V_and_A's "Between Two Worlds" exhibition as a springboard into discussion of the need to uncover the forgotten & overlooked stories of the peoples & objects hiding in plain sight.
"Finding connections and resonances between the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries can be of merit and encourages reflexivity. The V&A’s display makes enigmatic and valuable contributions to the debate."
bsecs.org.uk/criticks-review…
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✨Powerful Rocks✨A brief history of gemstone amulets at the V&A — the incredible web team @V_and_A really brought these treasures to life in a bobby-dazzler of a vid
m.youtube.com/watch?v=kqa09K…
Produced & Directed by @hollyhyams & Hannah Kingwell; camera & edit by Marco Carini
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Congratulations to Elizabeth Edwards, @Ravilious2 and their contributors! Their #openaccess book What #Photographs Do: The making and remaking of #museum cultures publishes today! ow.ly/onhR50KrYRy @UCLanthropology @PHRC_DeMontfort @V_and_A
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New ASMR at the museum is coming later this pm; reading historic feminist magazines from the 70s and 80s at National Art Library.
ALT A young blonde woman sitting in a library looks straight at the camera with a gentle expression
ALT A reader with long blonde hair reads a magazine propped up on a lectern in a wood-panelled library overlooking a garden
ALT Looking over the shoulder of a young white woman. She reads a Wonder Woman comic strip propped on a lectern next to a microphone.
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Ready for the sounds of books? New #ASMR at the museum is out today at 12pm. The first of a new series filmed at the National Art Library with @DrYvard @V_and_A #antiphonary #parchment #choirbook #pageturning
ALT A white woman’s finger points to a closeup of large black gothic script below music notes. To the left is an illuminated letter with pink and gold paint depicting Saint Anne cradling the Virgin Mary.
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Heading to the @V_and_A this weekend? After your visit, continue discovering the very best of art and design with our collection of V&A books: bit.ly/31oJ0ct
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#ASMR @V_and_A just went live. The sights and sounds of very gentle up-close handling of costumes worn by #VivienLeigh, #PJHarvey #SandieShaw who wore this dress when she won Eurovision in 1967. youtube.com/watch?feature=yo…
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"We have a long history of fighting for racial justice. Six years ago, we changed our attendance policies to ensure that staff could take MLK Day off without it counting as an absence."
mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-i…
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Bonjour à toutes et à tous! #CeJourLà en 1870, mourait Charles Dickens. Sur @GallicaBnF, vous pouvez retrouver l'oeuvre du romancier britannique, d'Oliver Twist à David Copperfield en passant par les Contes de Noël! Bonne lecture! #MardiConseil
=>c.bnf.fr/Jrv
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Thanks for watching! ASMR at the V&A is now permanently available on their YouTube channel: youtube.com/watch?v=bH7Sr3_H… #ASMR @V_and_A #sound #performance #costume #Unboxing
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C. F. A. Voysey was born #onthisday in 1857.
Published in partnership with the @V_and_A, ‘Voysey's Birds and Animals’ offers a wealth of designs by Voysey in which animals and birds are the principal motifs.
Get your copy for only £10.47: bit.ly/2B8zhO3
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In case a very long twitter thread wasn’t enough, the V&A recently uploaded this curator talk I gave about Cars: Accelerating the Modern World. You can listen to it here!: vam.ac.uk/articles/inside-th…
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Putting a call out for video editors, sound designers, film producers and studio assistants. Growing my feminist film making crew for properly paid work making sensory performance practice. Projects coming up so please get in touch and spread the word. X
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Tune in at 12.15pm today to hear @rowanbain of @V_and_A talk about her book ‘William Morris’s Flowers’ with @WMGallery. Details below👇
Tomorrow - a lunchtime Zoom talk by our senior curator Rowan Bain on her new book, William Morris's Flowers. More info and joining instructions here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/william-m… @WFculture19 @wfcouncil
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If you want to find out more about this kimono @V_and_A it was the subject of an episode of 'Moving Pictures' on @BBCRadio4. In fact the whole series is worth a listen.
bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09mtb0…
Time for more from @V_and_A online #kimono: some deep zoom megapixel giving an annotated tour of an outer-kimono (uchikake) relating to a popular kabuki play. We think this garment wld have been won by a high-ranking courtesan during the mid-19th century vam.ac.uk/articles/courtesan…
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Museums will lose a lot of money over the next few months, many will edge into financial precarity. If you’re financially secure to weather this (I realise many of you are not) might I suggest you buy a museum catalogue? Choose a museum you love and buy a book. Every bit helps.
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In case anyone else needs this right now: any #IIIF image URI can be turned into an online jigsaw puzzle. jigex.com/NNPR
ALT jigsaw puzzle of MS. Bodl. 264, fol. 21v
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If this doesn’t help sell more catalogues, then I don’t know what will. vam.ac.uk/shop/cars-accelera…
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Inspired by the Frida Kahlo exhibit at @V_and_A, kids at @GreatOrmondSt have been using digital devices with @GOSH_Arts to explore the artist's unique approach to self-portraiture. 13-year-old Grace loved Frida's iconic flower crowns, so created her very own in her portrait! 🎨
