this opportunistic restructuring at the @V_and_A is a disaster for all who love museums
the V&A was never a historical museum — it's a museum of design
imposing a "chonological" structure is an attack upon the very purpose and ethos of the institution
theartnewspaper.com/news/radical-r…
the V&A was never a historical museum — it's a museum of design
imposing a "chonological" structure is an attack upon the very purpose and ethos of the institution
theartnewspaper.com/news/radical-r…
solidarity with all those affected by this restructuring and whose jobs are under threat @VandPcs
Given this scale of loss, why not just cancel the white elephant that is V&A East instead?
omg in fact it's a chronological structure for Europe and America across four departments - BUT then hiving off Africa and Asia — which clearly don't have histories — into their own separate department
HOW did anyone think such a world view was acceptable in 2021?
HOW did anyone think such a world view was acceptable in 2021?
incredibly shocked and upset by this news @TristramHuntVA - as I'm sure many who love the V&A and understand why it matters will be
maybe the imaginary National History Museum will come exist after all
https://twitter.com/profdanhicks/status/1363406718529593345?s=20
the real cancel culture?
reducing the @V_and_A's foundational ethos of celebrating design across cultures with mere chronology—while evicting expert material departments, separating out "research" in some ivory tower, and hiving off the global south to some "unhistorical" annexe
reducing the @V_and_A's foundational ethos of celebrating design across cultures with mere chronology—while evicting expert material departments, separating out "research" in some ivory tower, and hiving off the global south to some "unhistorical" annexe
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