Culture
The V&A Was Built to Teach Industry, and That…
The Victoria and Albert Museum began not as a temple of art for art’s sake but as a government instrument to improve British manufacturing after…
Art
How to Collect Art on a Budget
To collect art on a budget, set a fixed annual or monthly ceiling, train your eye for free in public galleries, and buy directly from…
Theatre
Marie Rambert – how she built British ballet
Almost every professional dance institution in Britain traces back, directly or by inheritance, to two immigrant women. One was the Irish-born Ninette de Valois, whose…
Literature
Fashion
Mary Quant and the Invention of Youth Fashion
Mary Quant did not invent the miniskirt, but she did something harder to copy: she invented the boutique as a way of selling an attitude,…
Design
UK Design Museums Worth Visiting
The UK design museums most worth visiting are the Design Museum in Kensington, the V&A’s family of sites (South Kensington, the two V&A East buildings…
Architecture
Unbuilt: Why the World’s Most Ambitious Architecture Never Makes…
By Alexander Stone The most dangerous building in the world is the one that exists only on paper. It has no budget overruns, no planning…
Visual Arts
