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ANNUAL REVIEW 2017-18 V&A Annual Review 2017-18  V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2017-18 ANNUAL REVIEW 2017-18 V&A Annual Review 2017-18 V&AANNUALREVIEW2017-18 Year at a glance 4 Chairman’s foreword 8 Director’s foreword 10 2017–18 exhibitions and displays 12 Building the future 18 Seriously fun 22 Opening new doors 24 Welcome to China 26 Innovating overseas 28 The case for creativity 32 Designs on teaching 36 Rethinking Buddhist art 40 Acquisitions 42 Treasures from Blythe House 46 The Henry Cole Wing and café, the V&A The national picture 50 Exhibition Road Quarter, designed by AL_A © Hufton+Crow Reaching out 54 Front cover: The Sackler Courtyard, the V&A Exhibition Road Quarter, designed by AL_A © Hufton+Crow Financials 58 The Exhibition Road Quarter has been generously supported by The Monument Support 59 Trust, The Dr Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation, The Headley Trust, Blavatnik Family Foundation, the Garfield Weston Foundation, the Heritage Lottery Fund, Peter Williams and Heather Acton, the Friends of the V&A and many other donors Back cover: Stairs, generously supported by Peter Williams and Heather Acton, leading to The Sainsbury Gallery V&A Annual Review 2017–18 is published by Cultureshock Media on behalf of the Victoria and Albert Museum © 2018 Cultureshock (cultureshockmedia.co.uk) All images © Victoria and Albert Museum, London, unless otherwise stated While every effort has been made to identify copyright holders and supporters, some omissions may occur 3 V&AANNUALREVIEW2017-18 YEAR AT A GLANCE Record visitor figures The Pink Floyd Exhibition: for the V&A Their Mortal Remains For the first time in the Extended by two weeks due to popular museum’s history, the V&A demand, the V&A’s Pink Floyd exhibition attracted over four million – presented by Pink Floyd, the V&A and visitors, with a total of Iconic Entertainment Studios, sound 4,396,557 people visiting experience by Sennheiser – overtook V&A South Kensington, David Bowie is... to become the most- the V&A Museum of visited music show ever held at the Childhood and Blythe museum, attracting an audience of House. The V&A was 352,189 people. The spectacular display also named TripAdvisor explored the audio and visual culture Museum of the Year. Opera: Passion, Power and Politics of one of the most inventive groups of the last 50 years, culminating with the The first exhibition to open in the opportunity to experience the band’s new Sainsbury Gallery was Opera: final live performance in 2005. Passion, Power and Politics, a landmark V&A Exhibition Road Quarter opens its doors celebration of the ultimate immersive The V&A’s most ambitious building project for art form, created in collaboration with over a century was unveiled on 30 June 2017 by the Royal Opera House, sponsored by Societe Generale, sound partner Bowers the Duchess of Cambridge. Designed by Amanda V&A launches DesignLab Nation Record-breaking weekend & Wilkins and generously supported by Levete and her practice, AL_A, the V&A Exhibition education programme The V&A enjoyed its busiest weekend and Road Quarter encompasses a new civic space Blavatnik Family Foundation and The This year the V&A launched one of its busiest single day ever during September for London, a new world-class gallery and an Taylor Family Foundation with further most far-reaching national projects, a 2017. The London Design Festival, which accessible entrance to the V&A from Exhibition support from GRoW @ Annenberg, three-year programme bringing together ran between 16 and 24 September, Road. It was inaugurated with REVEAL festival, a Bertelsmann and Cockayne – Grants for the museum, regional institutions spearheaded the record-breaking period, week of digital and arts events featuring fashion the Arts, a donor advised fund of The and local design practitioners to with the museum as a whole welcoming designer Molly Goddard, artists Tomás Saraceno London Community Foundation and deliver exciting new design education 173,250 visitors. As the LDF festival hub, and Simon Heijdens, dancer Julie Cunningham Dr Genevieve Davies and the American opportunities for key stage 3 and 4 the V&A housed a broad range of specially and many more. Friends of the V&A. students across the country. Loans from commissioned installations and displays by the V&A’s collections complement the some of the world's most exciting designers, programme and ensure that all visitors as well as a huge programme of events The new V&A Gallery to the partner museums – not just the including talks, tours and workshops. students – have the chance to experience In December 2017, the V&A opened its first the V&A’s collections first-hand. international gallery at Design Society in China’s fast-paced design hub, Shenzhen. The gallery is A new room for Members part of a unique partnership with China Merchants Shekou Holdings – the first of its kind between an A magnificent new space dedicated to V&A international museum and a Chinese partner – Members opened on the top floor of Aston Webb’s where the V&A also provided professional advice, Grade I listed 1909 wing, designed by Carmody consultancy and training. The inaugural exhibition, Groarke, made possible through the generosity Values of Design, featured 250 objects from the V&A’s of V&A Members. The top-lit gallery, formerly a collections. Presenting a broad exploration of the study room and offices for the National Art Library, relationship of value and design, this marked the now bears a characteristic V&A mix of heritage, culmination of an international knowledge exchange modernity and design ingenuity, with bespoke programme, and three years of extensive research furniture and fittings. Its transformation includes a conducted in London and China, also resulting in 45 bar, café and restaurant for casual and formal dining, acquisitions for the V&A’s collections. and large mirror installations reflect the galleries below and architecture and courtyard outside. 4 5 YEAR AT A GLANCE V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2017-18 Collaborating in Coventry Plywood: Material of the Modern World V&A partners with Google to reveal fashion secrets Curators from the V&A’s Asia department This world-first exhibition, sponsored by worked with staff at the Herbert Art Gallery MADE.COM, supported by the American The V&A collaborated with Google Arts and & Museum to create the special exhibition Friends of the V&A, looked at the eclectic Culture to unlock the world of fashion, with a Crafts of the Punjab, which featured 85 history of plywood, an “everyday” material new virtual experience and online exhibitions exceptional objects from the V&A collection that has enabled some of the most detailing the incredible stories behind V&A spanning the 2nd to the 19th century. groundbreaking designs of the modern collections. For the We Wear Culture project, Alongside a gold throne made for Ranjit era – from second world war planes the V&A’s Vivienne Westwood corset from her Singh, the first Sikh Maharaja of the Punjab, to the downloadable self-assembly 1990 Portrait collection was the centrepiece highlights ranged from gold-inlaid steel WikiHouse. Considering the shifts in of a new virtual reality experience exploring artefacts to elaborate musical instruments. value associated with plywood, the show how humans go to extraordinary lengths to surpassed expectations for visitor figures, refashion their bodies. attracting 280,000 people. The shop is reconceived Prince’s shoes are acquired V&A Museum of Childhood Kids for the V&A’s collections Takeover Day The V&A shop was transformed into a cutting-edge space that showcases A pair of black satin shoes worn by the For the first time in its history, the the best in design, materials and musical icon was acquired for the V&A’s UK’s leading museum dedicated to innovation. The shop’s new look aimed National Collection of Performing Arts. children was taken over by its audience. to uncover the true architectural Prince was known for his flamboyant At the Kids in Museums Takeover Day in skeleton of the site, retaining elements stage presence, extravagant dress and November, more than 50 children from of its original structure while new wide vocal range, and his career tells a Globe Primary School were given jobs that display systems were added around strong design story involving complex adults normally do across departments it. The redesigned shop reveals the iconography. Through costume choices, at the V&A Museum of Childhood, and historic fabric of the building, and of which these shoes are an example, he offered their ideas for a better museum features both a jewellery pavilion and frequently played with his visual identity (such as gold front doors). BBC Radio 5 Live ‘pocket studio’ with a changing focus and challenged traditional notions of interviewed students about the day in a on materials throughout the year. masculinity, race and sexuality. live news broadcast. Winnie-the-Pooh delights V&A unveils ReACH initiative families in their thousands Launched at UNESCO in May 2017, Audiences experienced the timeless and ReACH (Reproduction of Art and universal appeal of this much-loved bear Cultural Heritage) is a pioneering through an exhibition, with support global programme exploring the role of from the Unwin Charitable Trust with reproductions for cultural heritage in additional support from Old Possum’s the digital age. Spearheaded by the V&A, Practical Trust, that featured sketches, the programme rethinks our approach letters, photographs, cartoons, ceramics to reproducing, storing and sharing and fashion, including the original works of art and cultural heritage. One manuscript of Winnie-the-Pooh from of its key aims is to share best practices the Wren Library at Trinity College. The concerning the production, storage and exhibition revealed the story behind the dissemination of reproductions and to creative partnership of AA Milne and EH use the information gathered to draft a Shepard and the factors contributing to new convention concerning the role of the success and enduring popularity of museums in this crucial debate.
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