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It demonstrated the appeal of the V&A to and beyond and Canada. Modernism was shown to great collaborations with US institutions, including has been given new prominence by the Japanese audiences. Japan remains an We aim to reflect the diverse cultural critical acclaim at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, curatorial exchanges with the Yale Center for touring exhibition, Palace and Mosque, important and lively area for our exhibitions. Art Deco Australia backgrounds of UK citizens and overseas Washington DC, in 2007. British Art and the Metropolitan Museum of which attracted almost 300,000 visits in the Links with Chinese museums are growing. visitors at our London sites.We work with The Art of Lee Miller In 2007 and 2008,The Art of Lee Miller Art, New York. Key US funders, including the USA, Japan and Britain (2004 to 2006), and Shanghai Museum loaned highlights of its local communities as well as international will travel to Philadelphia and San Francisco, J. Paul Getty Trust and the Samuel H. Kress by the opening of the acclaimed Jameel collection of 17th century painted porcelain to Baroque: 1600 - 1800 organisations and artists. Some examples: and Medieval and Renaissance Treasures Foundation, have supported major V&A Gallery of Islamic Art at the V&A in July the V&A in 2006. For the Shanghai World A Century of Olympic Posters From the V&A will continue its five-venue conservation and cataloguing projects, while 2006. Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art, V&A South Kensington Expo in 2010, we are collaborating with the • The opening of the Jameel Gallery of Islamic tour across Canada and the USA. collaborations with the FAMSF and the Lending to Middle Eastern institutions is International Expo Bureau on a touring China Design Now Art in July 2006 was celebrated with an Between 1995 and 2005, the V&A lent Corcoran Gallery of Art,Washington DC, have increasing and museum professionals and exhibition about Expo Cities. In Korea, extensive events programme including three objects to 181 venues in North America. underpinned research for major forthcoming advisers from the region have come to the highlights of our international ceramics Cinema India:The Art of Bollywood weekends of Persian,Turkish and Arab The V&A enjoys a significant relationship exhibitions such as Aestheticism (2011). V&A for formal and informal professional collection will tour to Seoul in 2008 and Cold War Modern themed activities, a Contemporary Friday Late with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco development.We are members of the we are preparing a survey of the Korean and a fashion show. (FAMSF) marked by a Memorandum of consortium of European and Arab museums collections with the Korean National Digital Responses • The V&A Museum of Childhood opened Understanding.The first joint project was the that produced the Discover Islamic Art Research Institute for Cultural Heritage. Indian Life and Landscape:Western Views ‘The World in the East End’ gallery in January Vivienne Westwood exhibition. website, part of Museum With No Frontiers. of the Subcontinent 2004. It explores the traditions and (www.discoverislamicart.org) Ota Memorial Museum of Art,Tokyo, 25,400 visits contribution of local communities. International Arts and Crafts (2006/07) Masterpeices of Ukiyo-e from the V&A (2006/07) Indian Temple Sculpture • Research into our collections identified Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (de thousands of objects relevant to Black African Fine Arts Museum of San Fransisco Fashion and Sport Young), 157,000 visits (FAMSF), USA and Caribbean audiences. Some were Research in Japan and China The Golden Age of Couture displayed alongside works by contemporary Vivienne Westwood: A Retrospective (2006/07) Lacquer specialists from the V&A, Japan and artists in Uncomfortable Truths:The Shadow Lafayette Archive: Indian and South East Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (de the US are researching the Mazarin chest. of Slave Trading on Contemporary Art and Asian Sitters Young), 145,000 visits For more information see: Design, marking the 2007 bicentenary of the http://www.vam.ac.uk/res_cons/conservation Lafayette Archive: India’s Ruling Princes Parliamentary abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Modernism: Designing a New World /research/projects/mazarin_chest/index.html Maharajas Slave Trade. (2006/07),The Corcoran Gallery of Art, • Every year the V&A celebrates festivals such Washington D.C. 93,000 visits China Design Now, 2008, involved a high Masterpieces in Ceramics from the Victoria as Diwali, Eid, Hanukkah and Christmas, as level of collaboration in Beijing and London. and Albert Museum well as Carnival and Chinese New Year. Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from the Victoria • The V&A has sustained collaboration with El Anatsui, Akua's Surviving Children, installation, found wood and Albert Museum Jain and Sikh communities since dedicated and metal, height 165cm, width exhibitions in 1995 and 1999 respectively. and depth variable. Courtesy October Gallery, London. Medieval and Renaissance Treasures from the • The V&A leads Image & Identity, a Shown in Uncomfortable Truths Victoria and Albert Museum nationwide museum education consortium Modernism for young people.Themes have included Islamic Cultures in 2006 and Slavery in 2007. 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