A morning spent at the V&A is a morning well spent
[March 23- August 11, 2013]
A remarkable show, outstandingly
well curated.
An excellent, informative article on Bowie, his life, by Ian
Buruma ‘The Invention of David Bowie’ in the New York Review of Books [May
23-June 5, 2013] …Bowie changed the way many people looked in the 1970’s, 1980’s
even the 1990’s…it is entirely fitting that the Victoria and Albert Museum should
stage a huge exhibition of Bowie’s stage clothes, as well as music videos, handwritten
song lyrics, film clips, artwork, scripts, storyboards, and other Bowieana from
his personal archive..
In marked contrast, the Zeitgeist of the past decades, a well-mannered show Treasures of the Royal Courts shows the Tudors and Stuarts had
close relationships with the Russian Tsars.
Elizabethan silver-gilt at its most magnificent lent by the Kremlin
Museum. Objects given to the Tsars, once looking
dismal and tarnished in their glass cases, can now be seen in all their splendour.
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