The Mayor of London says, go east!

The Jameel Prize show at the Victoria and Albert Museum looks for the best in Islamic or Islamic-inspired art

The artists make themselves at home

Elmgreen & Dragset install a house at the Victoria and Albert Museum

Bid for Exhbition Road extension and underground gallery rejected

Museum closes a cultural gulf

The Victoria and Albert Museum is the first institution to gain access to David Bowie’s 75,000-item archive

The new design will hopefully be complete by 2015

This book, linked to a current exhibition, explores the V&A’s unrivalled holdings

The V&A rocks its Gothic cradle

“Wizard of Oz” and “Gone with the Wind” costumes among those on show

Ziggy Stardust fashion for the V&A

Design includes a courtyard and new entrance

More exhibitions are hit by the loans boycott as Turkey pushes for restitution

Despite the recession, the British Museum, Tate and V&A attract major donations

Multiple claims for antiquities at New York’s Met, major exhibitions hit at London’s British Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum

Illuminating scholarship

Victorian collectors’ pictures back on display

Collecting oneself—and a few others besides in the Victoria & Albert Museum Photographic Department

The V&A’s new, German-born director Martin Roth on what he learned in Dresden—and Beijing

“Handmade in Britain”

Museum considers the award too complex and time consuming

The museum extends down, not up with new plan that is largely below street level and much less expensive than the failed Spiral

Qatar agrees to loan

Out of a total of £193m, Tate's gifts by the likes of Hockney, Hirst, Bonnard and Bacon total £147m

A visually rich if somewhat repetitive account

Techno-design is go for museum collections

End of an era of modernisation

The summation of a lifetime’s work and a triumph of scholarship

Papal blessing and private funder for Victoria and Albert Museum’s Sistine show