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Kate to speak about her foundation’s early childhood research

Kate, who launched her early years Shaping Us campaign in January, will host the event at the Design Museum in London.

The Independent UK

One giant ollie for skate-kind! The show where you pull your own gnarly tricks

From Tony Hawk’s first ever board to a fully functioning mini-ramp for those brave enough to have a go, the Design Museum is racing through 70 years of hot wheels

The Guardian - UK

‘We all deserve to take up space’: The changing face of London’s skate scene

From mums in their 50s to people in the LGBTQIA+ community, more people than ever are finding a place in the world of skateboarding. Ahead of the sport’s second Olympic competition at Paris 2024, Isabelle Aron learns more about London’s increasingly inclusive scene

Evening Standard

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Battersea area guide: the Design Museum’s chief curator on how her area has undergone a vibe shift

The Design Museum’s new chief curator Johanna Agerman Ross on how her changing area offers culture, good connections and top cinema snacks

Evening Standard

A Barbie exhibition is coming to the Design Museum next year

Exhibition will celebrate 65 years of life in plastic

The Independent UK

It’s Barbie and (High Street) Ken! Doll gets a 65th birthday show at the Design Museum

The new exhibition will coincide with the toy’s 65th anniversary

Evening Standard

Dolled up: Design Museum to host Barbie exhibition next year

The London museum has been granted special access to the world-famous toy’s archives in California and will explore her history ‘through a design lens’

The Guardian - UK

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65th anniversary of Barbie to be marked with new Design Museum exhibition

After three years in the making, the exhibition will open on July 5 at the London museum.

The Independent UK

‘What did London have that New York, Paris, and Milan didn’t?’: how the UK capital’s fashion conquered the world

Thirty years ago, the capital’s fashion scene was in the shadow of its rivals. Now a new exhibition – featuring pieces worn by Björk and Sam Smith – charts the city’s nightlife-inspired resurgence

The Guardian - UK

Young people not snowflakes or wasters, says curator of rebellious fashion exhibition

The Design Museum collection includes nearly 100 looks from ground-breaking debut and early collections.

The Independent UK

I love saris — but I have never seen saris like these before

NPR correspondent Rhitu Chatterjee visited a hit London museum show called "The Offbeat Sari." It showed her how the garment has changed — and made her reflect on what the sari means to her.

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‘A truly unique object’: Design Museum to chart history of skateboards

Exhibition opening in the autumn will celebrate sport’s journey from fringes to Olympics

The Guardian - UK

Showstopper from Björk heads 30-year fashion spectacular

The Design Museum’s new exhibition will coincide with London Fashion Week

Evening Standard

Bjork’s controversial swan dress to go on display in new exhibition

It will join outfits worn by Harry Styles, Rihanna and Sam Smith, in an exhibition celebrating rebellious fashion.

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Best 3D printed buys for tech-savvy shoppers, from fashion to homeware

From sunglasses to sneakers, the 3D market is taking over

The Hindu

Sanjay Garg on ‘The Offbeat Sari’ and why India needs its own exhibition

Its many contemporary expressions are being explored at The Offbeat Sari exhibition at London’s Design Museum. Isn’t it time India has its own show?

The Guardian - UK

From Cannes to the Met Gala: how India’s sari is taking over the world

The timeless appeal of the south Asian classic has gone global – and a new London exhibition shows how it has been reinvented

Evening Standard

The Offbeat Sari: Design Museum’s beautiful new exhibition charts the power of the sari

The UK’s first dedicated sari show explores the garment’s modern reinvention

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The Guardian - UK

Ai Weiwei: Making Sense review – horror, playfulness and delight

From neolithic tools to Monet in Lego, the artist contemplates the human freight of things made and of use – or useless – across millennia in a show that’s at once elegiac and affirmative

Evening Standard

Ai Weiwei at the Design Museum: “We’re building a society on greed and selfishness”

‘I always pay attention to all the refugee situations, not because I’m a refugee, but I’m trying to see where our humanity is going to be... those boats carry our trust in humanity’

The Independent UK

Ai Weiwei, Design Museum review: The master provocateur creates timeless beauty from historical objects

The exiled Chinese artist turns his industrial-scale collecting into sinister yet quietly moving, meditative works in Making Sense

Evening Standard

Ai Weiwei has made a giant version of Monet’s Water Lilies out of Lego... and it’s coming to London

The work will go on show at the Design Museum next month

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Ai Weiwei's largest-ever Lego artwork revealed at London’s Design Museum

At London’s Design Museum, Ai Weiwei has revealed Water Lilies #1, a new Lego recreation of Claude Monet’s iconic painting. We explore the vast new work ahead of the Chinese artist’s major show at the museum, opening on 7 April 2023

The Guardian - UK

Ai Weiwei’s Lego re-imagining of Monet’s water lilies to go on show in London

Exclusive: 15-metre-long work made up of 650,000 Lego bricks to form part of artist’s biggest UK show in eight years

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