11/12/2003. LONDON, ENGLAND.- The V&A is delighted to announce the gift of 23 Alfred Stieglitz photographs and ...

08/31/2004. LONDON, ENGLAND.- The V&A is staging its first sound exhibition Shhh… in May 2004. International musicians and artists, including David Byrne and Turner Prize winner Gillia...

02/06/2005. LONDON, UK.- The V&A's major spring exhibition, International Arts and Crafts, will be the most comprehensive ever UK exhibition on the movement and the first to look at it from a truly international perspective. It will show how Arts and Craf...

08/12/2005. LONDON, ENGLAND.-The V&A has been awarded an HLF grant of £9.75 million towards the Museum's new Medieval and Renaissance Galleries. Opening in 2009, these galleries will be the culmination of the £75 million first phase of the V&A's FuturePla...

08/28/2008. LONDON.- This winter the British Museum will open a new Ancient Egyptian gallery centered round the spectacular painted tomb-chapel of Nebamun. The paintings are some of the most famous images of Egyptian art, and come from the now lost tomb-c...

12/12/2008. LONDON.- The Victoria & Albert Museum presents Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from the V&A, on view through March 15, 2009. The V&A's collection of ukiyo-e is one of the largest and finest in the world...

03/07/2009. PARIS.- The Louvre presents today The Gates of Heaven - Visions of the World in Ancient Egypt, on view through June 29, 2009. In the ancient Egyptian language, “gates of heaven” referred to the doors on a sacred shrine holding the st...

03/23/2010. WASHINGTON, DC.- Daniel Sheehy has been named director of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, effective immediately. Sheehy will oversee the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, the Ralph Rinzl...

11/29/2011. MEXICO CITY.- Mariachi is the Mexican musical expression that has a great vitality within Mexico and abroad, and has been declared by UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Humanity, during the sixth reunion of the Intergovernmental Commit...

08/17/2014. A Napoleonic medal cabinet, thought to be one of the finest pieces of French Empire furniture in Britain, has been saved from export with support from the Art Fund. Created around 1810, the cabi...

06/13/2015. For centuries, women and sometimes men have squeezed their feet into tiny shoes or balanced on towering heels to feel sexy, empowered and to show their wealth and status. Now their sacrifice is being celebrated in a new exhibition, 'Shoes: Pleasur...

05/08/2019. Brazil's devastated National Museum is broke and cannot afford storage for artifacts rescued from the ashes of the gutted building, its director said Tuesday. In a desperate plea for more funding, Alexander Kellner warned "there will be no more Na...

09/20/2019. Fondazione Prada presents “Il sarcofago di Spitzmaus e altri tesori”(Spitzmaus Mummy in a Coffin and Other Treasures), an exhibition project conceived by Wes Anderson and Juman Ma...

03/25/2021. Facing the stone archway of St. Joseph’s Salesian Youth Retreat Center outside Los Angeles, the dark wooden coffin holding the body of Juan Jiménez was wheeled next to a band of masked mariachis. The group readied themselves to play, simultaneou...

03/16/2024. Early in the planning process, Kristina Trejo was steadfast about the type of entertainment she wanted at her wedding. As a first-generation Mexican American from Culver City, California, she thought certain details should pay tribute to her cultural...