There's an amazing collaboration between man and insect on display at the Art Institute of Chicago, a cloth woven purely from the silk of over a million Golden Orb spiders. This magnificent textile, naturally golden in c...

A plaster cast from the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum - This fig-leaf was hung on the David on the occ...  ...r first encounter with the cast of 'David', Queen Victoria was so shocked by his nudity that a firm suggesti....

The V&A is, of course, one of the world's prem...  ...V&A is, of course, one of the world's premier museums of design and decorative arts.  They have recent...