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Young V&A, formerly the V&A Museum of Childhood, is a branch of the Victoria and Albert Museum (the "V&A"), which is the United Kingdom's national museum of applied arts. It is in Bethnal Green in the East End of London , and specialises in objects by and for children.
The Young V&A is designed by young people, for young people. (David Parry/ V&A) Following the announcement, the museum was praised for having young people personally get involved in creating ...
Later that year, her debut book Crazy God won an award from the World Health Organization and was exhibited at "The World Conference on Poverty and Health" in Venice. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Her second book, Hidden Identities, Unfinished , published in 2013, has been presented with a solo show at the V&A Museum of Childhood of London.
Marianne Straub was born in the village of Amriswil, Switzerland, the second of four daughters of the textile merchant Carl Straub and his wife Cécile Kappeler. [2] She had tuberculosis as a young child and spent over four years in a hospital ward, returning home at the age of eight. [2]
All of the hundred artworks shown became part of the V&A's permanent collection. [11] A book of the same title, published by Abrams, was released in February 2013. [ 12 ] The V&A display traveled to the Bard Graduate Center Gallery in New York City (9/15/2014 - 1/11/2015), where the curator, Douglas Dodds, vastly expanded the show's scope to ...
Evans served as a member of the V&A's Advisory Council from 1953 to 1966 [12] and as a trustee of the British Museum (1963-1967). [ 9 ] She was made an Honorary Fellow of St. Hugh's College, Oxford, an honorary doctor of letters from Cambridge and awarded the honour, Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur as well as fellowships from the Royal ...
The V&A Rotunda Chandelier (often known as V&A Chandelier and originally called Ice Blue and Spring Green Chandelier) is a glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly. It hangs under the glass rotunda at the entrance to the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington, London. Considered to be an artwork as much as a source of light, it was installed in ...
Monica Maurice was born in Hucknall Torkard, near Nottingham, [3] and brought up in the industrial north Midlands, the eldest of three daughters. Her father was William Maurice (1872–1951), founder of the Wolf Safety Lamp Company, a manufacturer of safety lamps for mining and quarrying; he had purchased the business rights from Friemann and Wolf of Zwickau, Saxony, Germany, in 1910.