The Victoria & Albert Museum Expands, Twice

Two new outposts of the London institution make a vibrant case for handmade craft in an age of A.I. slop. The Storehouse, designed by the architectural firm of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, is a coolly contemporary solution to the puzzle of an inordinate collection: warehouse meets . In the past eighteen months, Britain's venerable Victoria & Albert Museum has added two new outposts. The nation's most important repository of applied and decorative arts, it possesses far more than its custodians can (or would want to) put on permanent display at its long-standing location, in South Kensington. For decades, hundreds of thousands of its objects were available only to scholars and curators.