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Exhibition will feature artefacts from public executions from 1196 to 1868 On 30 January 1649, King Charles I of England took to the scaffold outside the Banqueting House in London’s Whitehall. He had requested two shirts to prevent himself from shivering from the cold, a reflex he thought could be mistaken for fear. He knelt […] More
Curator assures the public that stereotype-busting show will not include Sting or Kama Sutra Forget “no sex please, we’re British”. More a case of “there will be lots of sex, we’re the British Museum”. But the curator has assured the public the first major UK exhibition to explore Tantra won’t be the “pleasure for the […] More
V&A, London Darren Waterston’s remake of the painter’s opulent Peacock Room is a vision of dripping stalactites, decay and ruin. But this ‘showette’ all feels rather ordinary – unlike Whistler’s work The trouble with Filthy Lucre: Whistler’s Peacock Room Reimagined is that it isn’t filthy enough. US artist Darren Waterston has created a ruinous installation […] More
Sir David Attenborough says exhibition of Thames oil paintings at restored Sandycombe Lodge pays ‘proper respect’ to artist Oil paintings by JMW Turner have gone on display in the artist’s former west London home for the first time since 1826. The exhibition, at the meticulously restored Sandycombe Lodge in Twickenham, which was designed by Turner […] More
Relocation of museum’s collections to east London has brought surprising dangers There are razor-sharp samurai swords, lethal poison darts and dauntingly huge 17th-century ceilings but a particular challenge for the V&A as it moves to new storage facilities comes from a surprising area – women’s hats. “People think that textiles and fashion don’t have a […] More
