Monday 3 September 2018

September at the V&A

SEE IT FROM NEXT WEEKVideogames:Design/Play/Disrupt
From 8 September

What does it take to design a videogame today?
Take your knowledge to the next level with large-scale immersive installations and interactives in the first exhibition to explore the design and culture of contemporary videogames.

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Generously supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation
OTHER EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
EXHIBITION
The Future Starts Here
Until Sunday 4 November
Supported by Volkswagen Group

This major exhibition celebrates the power of design in shaping the world of tomorrow, bringing together 100 objects that are in development or newly released, that point toward where the future might be headed.

EXHIBITION
Fashioned from Nature
Until 27 January 2019
Supported by the European Confederation of Flax and Hemp - CELC

Discover the complex relationship between fashion and nature from 1600 to the present day in this award-winning exhibition.

Additional support from G-Star RAW

EXHIBITION
Frida Kahlo:
Making Her Self Up
Until 4 November
Sponsored by Grosvenor Britain & Ireland

Explore how iconic artist Frida Kahlo fashioned her identity, in the first exhibition outside of Mexico to reunite her clothes and personal artefacts with key self-portraits.

With support from Aeromexico, Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne and GRoW @ Annenberg

EXHIBITION
Jameel Prize 5
Until 25 November
In partnership with Art Jameel

Discover contemporary art and design inspired by Islamic tradition. Winning entries from this year include innovative mosque architecture, clever geometric abstraction, besides fashion design that elevates traditional work wear to wearable art, multi-media installations, paintings and more.

Free Admission
EVENING TALK
Martin Rowson
Wednesday 12 September, 19.00 – 20.45

Award-winning cartoonist Martin Rowson discusses the history of visual satire and his approach to adapting Marx and Engels' revolutionary pamphlet in this bicentenary year of Marx's birth.

(includes wine reception)
EVENING TALK
Stan Smith: Some People Think I'm A Shoe
Wednesday 19 September, 19.00 – 20.45

Join the man behind the iconic adidas shoe, former world No. 1 tennis player Stan Smith, in celebration of his book Stan Smith: Some People Think I'm A Shoe.

(includes wine reception)
SHOP
Videogames book
Read about ground-breaking contemporary design work, creative and rebellious player communities, and the political conversations that define the videogames movement.


V&A MUSEUM OF CHILDHOOD
LAST CHANCE TO SEE
Century of the Child: Nordic Design for Children 1900 to Today
We say farvel, ha det, adjö, hei hei andbless to our Nordic friends and our Century of the Child: Nordic Design for Children 1900 to Today exhibition, closing this Sunday.
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