Tartan - V&A Dundee:  Tartan and Innovation

Tartan at V&A Dundee

V&A Dundee to present the first major exhibition in Scotland in 30 years to focus solely on tartan

Zadie Xa - Child of Magohalmi and the Echos of Creation

Internationally renowned art festival set to take place in Dundee in 2023

Image by Matt Rowe, courtesy of Art Night - Zadie Xa, 'Child of Magohalmi and the Echos of Creation' (2019) at Walthamstow Library, co-commissioned by Art Night, Tramway, Yarat and De La Warr.

Councillor Mark Flynn reveals new aerial images exhibition at Dundee Waterfront

The sky's the limit for Dundee Waterfront hoardings

A DOZEN new images of Dundee, all taken from the sky, have been unveiled at the city’s Waterfront.

The large framed pictures will brighten up the hoardings between Earl Grey Place West and Thomson Avenue on South Crichton Street into the New Year.

University of Dundee - online exhibition reconnects Scottish city with its past

Online exhibition reconnects Scottish city with its past

Students at the University of Dundee are turning snippets of local life into art as part of a new online exhibition.

Top prizes for DJCAD graduates at 2020 New Designers

Top prizes for DJCAD graduates at 2020 New Designers

Design graduates from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Naomi Cairns and Naomi McIntosh, have won top prizes during Part 1 and 2 of the 2020 New Designers Awards. 

Dundee Windows Artists

Windows open to art

ALL SIX successful art works in Dundee City Council’s Dundee Windows project have been unveiled to the public for the first time Friday 4th.

Mary Quant and her Ginger Group of girls in Market Street Manchester.  February 1966. Photo by Howard Walker - Mirrorpix Getty Images

V&A DUNDEE: Mary Quant 1960s image recreated

Mary Quant celebrated in V&A Dundee’s first fashion photoshoot

City Centre Activities

SHOPPERS and visitors returning to Dundee city centre after lockdown will find a brighter livelier scene than the one they might remember.


Dundee City Council has joined forces with retailers and artists to brighten up the main shopping streets with posters, window displays, street painting and shop trails.

 

V&A Dundee - Mary Quant

Mary Quant extended at V&A Dundee

V&A Dundee will reopen on Thursday 27 August with its fir

Waterfront Place, interactive park, humpback whale

Waterfront Place Interactive Park

 

An award-winning young British artist has been chosen to provide the centre-piece of a key space at Dundee Waterfront.

Dundee: Fashion Forward

The “coolest little city,” the UNESCO City of Design and the home of jute production. We have design and fashion running through the veins of Dundee. With such a rich textile history, the city was already set to be a fashion centre in Scotland.

V&A celebrates birthday milestone

V&A Dundee welcomed over 830,000 visitors in its first year, 330,000 more than the pre-opening estimate of 500,000 visitors.

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V&A Dundee Named as One of the Top Global Destinations by TIME Magazine

V&A Dundee has been named as one of Scotland’s premier visitor attractions for international travellers to visit this year.

Dundee Loaded Up for Summer of Games

The UK’s coolest little city will be fizzing with videogames talent, innovation and fun for the next four months as a Summer of Games rolls out across Dundee.

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V&A Dundee Shortlisted for Prestigious Award

V&A Dundee has been selected as one of five finalists for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2019.

This award is regarded as the most prestigious museum prize in the world. The annual award celebrates innovation and exceptional achievement in museums and galleries across the UK.

V&A Dundee Reaches 500,000 Visitors

V&A Dundee has welcomed half a million visitors to the museum since it opened, hitting the milestone almost six months earlier than expected.

The 500,000th person to walk through the doors of Scotland’s first design museum was officially recorded on Saturday 30 March 2019.

V&A Dundee wins Wallpaper* Design Award for Best New Public Building

V&A Dundee has won the Wallpaper* Design Award 2019 for the Best New Public Building. 

Happy 80th Birthday to Beano

DC Thomson - Beano's 80th Birthday 

On July 30th 1938, seven months after the Dandy was first published, DC Thomson launched the second of its "funny boys' papers" – Beano.

V&A Dundee Opens to the World

V&A Dundee opens its doors for the first time to the public on Saturday 15 September 2018. Today its beautiful, light-filled interiors designed by acclaimed Japanese architect Kengo Kuma have been revealed for the first time.

Stewart Carmichael Artist

Work on display to celebrate artist’s 150th Birthday

The work of Stewart Carmichael, one of Dundee’s great champions of art, is to be featured in a new exhibition at the University of Dundee, the first major retrospective since his death in 1950.

 

Dundee Waterfront – An interview with Mike Galloway

Urban planning is like "real-life SimCity" to the man who is spearheading Dundee’s waterfront development