August 2015

Welcome to August's Cassone

September's issue is in production - sorry for the delay!

The ‘Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty’ exhibition, which closes this month and was reviewed in Cassone ’s July issue, has made V&A history by being so popular that for its final two weekends the museum stayed open all night! This was the only way the museum could accommodate the unprecedented demand for tickets, and it was the first time the V&A has stayed open continually for 24 hours at a time.

The full price for an adult ticket was £16 – or £17.60 if you wished to make your payment qualify as a ‘ Gift Aid’ donation. It doesn’t seem that long since £10 was considered expensive for exhibition admission, but the £10 admission to the Queen’s Gallery for ‘Painting Paradise’ (reviewed in June’s Cassone ) now seems positively...

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