Fashion and Costume
Folding Plug wins Brit Insurance Design of the year 2010
The winners of the British Design Awards have been announced with a folding electrical plug winning this year's British design Oscars at the Design Museum in London.
Eleven curators to sweep up Saatchi fair for £75,000 Art Fund and Crafts Council prize
Curators from 11 museums and galleries will compete for a £75,000 prize at the Craft Council's Collect fair in May.
A talk on the wild side with Marcus Coates
During our interview with artist Marcus Coates, we discuss shamanism, charlatanism, art, humour and nature. But as Mark Sheerin discovers, no badgers were available for comment.
Manchester's Gallery of Costume to reopen after two-year, £1.3million revamp
The Gallery of Costume in Manchester is to reopen following a two-year, £1.3 million overhaul on March 13.
Birmingham's finest take on the world after winning £200,000 funding grant
The Birmingham Royal Ballet, Birmingham City University's School of Jewellery and South Asian arts group Sampad are among eight groups touring the world following a £200,000 funding grant.
New Art and Design Prize for the North of England launched
Applications are being invited for Northern Futures, a new art and design award that aims to recognize the best emerging talent from the North of England.
Gwyneth Paltrow's Antonio Berardi number is Fashion Museum's Dress of the Year
A dress by Antonio Berardi has been chosen by Lucy Yeomans, editor of Harper's Bazaar, as Dress of the Year 2009 in a ceremony at Bath Fashion Museum.
Photographing Fashion: British Style in the 1960s at Fashion Museum in Bath
The Bath and North East Somerset Fashion Museum will be opening up the Mrs Ernestine Carter Collection to show 20 of the finest fashion photographs from the 1960s.
Extravagant Maharaja show offers rich voyage through Indian history at the V&A
Jennie Gillions finds an array of gleaming weapons, dazzling jewellery, elaborate artefacts and cultural insights in Maharaja at London's Victoria and Albert Museum.
Brilliantly Birmingham celebrates 10 years of contemporary jewellery design
Dazzling designs from the world's best contemporary jewellery makers will be taking centre stage at the 10th Brilliantly Birmingham festival.
Marcus Coates journeys to Milton Keynes Gallery with Psychopomp
Shamanistic rituals, animal calls, humorous costumes and fauna-inspired wisdom fill Milton Keynes Gallery in the first UK museum show by Marcus Coates. Mark Sheerin suspends his disbelief.
Age-old uniforms allow National Railway Museum to track history of train workers
The National Railway Museum has teamed up with a group of decorative and fine art specialists to investigate the uniforms of former railway workers in a bid to find out more about their former...
Sir John Soane's museum to host explorations of the life and work of Mrs Mary Delany
Mrs Delany and her Circle and Promiscuous Assemblage, Friendship & Other Things are two beautiful explorations of friendship and female accomplishment focused on the life and work of Mrs Mary Delany.
Brian Aris shows art of glass with Debbie Harry shots at Proud Camden
Being Blondie, a retrospective of pop icon Debbie Harry by distinguished photographer Brian Aris, has taken a revealing selection of snaps of the leading lady to Proud Camden in London.
1930s Vionnet dresses kept in UK after trio of museums form £450,000 rescue package
A set of "exquisite" dresses made for a 1930s socialite by Paris haute couture designer Madeleine Vionnet have been bought by The Bowes Museum, The Fashion Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
