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Renaissance codpieces, Jenny Saville on the Holocaust and fungi fun – the week in art

Hew Locke brings his bricolage to Tate Britain, the V&A explores male fashion ancient and modern, while robot futurism hits St Ives – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK · Mar 18, 2022

Am I the only man who can resist taking a topless bathroom selfie?

AMONG the more experimental end of the menswear displayed at the V&A’s Fashioning Masculinities exhibition, I was delighted to spot a look from the autumn/winter 2013 JW Anderson show. Not every man can carry off a matt black kangaroo pouch boob tube, thigh-skimming shorts and knee-high boots with frill edging.…

Evening Standard · Mar 18, 2022

Boys keep swinging: a critical tour of Fashioning Masculinities at the V&A Museum

As Fashioning Masculinities opens at the V&A Museum, Joe Bromley takes a tour and wonders why menswear has been hemmed in for so long

Evening Standard · Mar 17, 2022

Stoke has missed chance to capitalise on its pottery heritage, says V&A boss

The museum’s director says the city should be building on the booming interest in ceramics fuelled by TV and film, not slashing heritage funds

The Guardian - UK · Mar 6, 2022

Men’s clothes have always been a way to unpick the locks of gender

The V&A’s first major exhibition dedicated to menswear shows how it has always pushed beyond binaries

The Guardian - UK · Mar 6, 2022

Patrick Radden Keefe on exposing the Sackler family’s links to the opioid crisis

The journalist tracked the billionaire arts philanthropists’ role in the OxyContin scandal in his gripping bestseller. He talks about why the bad guys are still getting away with it

The Guardian - UK · Feb 27, 2022

How Peter Rabbit writer Beatrix Potter defied sexists to leap ahead of her time

The extraordinary tale of Beatrix Potter, whose world famous Peter Rabbit children's books have inspired generations of youngsters, is told in V&A Museum show

Daily Mirror · Feb 12, 2022

Beatrix Potter, Drawn from Nature at the V&A review: Reclaiming this Londoner from the Lake District

This splendid little exhibition shows that it was the capital that helped form one of our most beloved illustrators

Evening Standard · Feb 9, 2022