Date published: 2009/06/12
The Victoria and Albert Museum is having an exhibition with the title "Baroque 1620-1800: Style in the Age of Magnificence" (running from 4 April until 19 July 2009). This is a difficult exhibition to have put together, because the best of the baroque is the architecture, and you just can't bring most of that into a museum (except indirectly, via films, which is not the same thing).
They have put the exhibition on in their usual exhibition space but it is amazingly thinly occupied in comparison to most of their recent exhibitions. The stuff they have is fairly eclectic (including discussions of theatre design, as well as the more obvious points about architecture, furniture and sculpture), and, as to be expected, high quality (except for the couple of tapestries). But it's not going to excite most people, and it's not going to be a blockbuster exhibition.
On Fridays the V&A is open late, including the exhibition. But many, if not most, of the galleries closed at their usual times, so in some sense it's not really open late, and it is a bit of a pity that such a great museum has to penny pinch in this way.
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