A new exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London brings together fifteen diverse cars to explore how the automobile accelerated the pace of change over the past century and the impact it had on the broader world, from visual culture to climate change. One of the cars selected for the show is the legendary Tatra 77, designed in Czechoslovakia in 1934. I spoke to Brendan Cormier, one of the exhibition’s curators, to find out more about the exhibition, which will run until April 2020:
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A new exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London brings together fifteen diverse cars to...
The early 20th century naïve painter and sketch artist Robert Guttmann, in whose honour the exhibition...
The celebrated Czech-born writer Milan Kundera received Czech citizenship forty years after it was...
The 1966 film Daisies by Věra Chytilová has come sixth in an extensive new BBC poll of the 100 greatest...
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