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Exhibitions

Agitprop, love trucks and leaflet bombs: the art of protest

The V&A's Disobedient Objects. Plus: an exhibition in Suffolk dedicated to the map-mad younger brother of Eric Gill

30 August 2014

9:00 AM

30 August 2014

9:00 AM

Disobedient Objects

V&A, until 1 February 2015

Maps to Memorials: Discovering the Work of MacDonald Gill

The Lettering Arts Centre, Snape Maltings, until 12 November

Titles can be misleading, and in case you have visions of microwave ovens running amok or washing machines crunching up the parquet, be reassured — or disappointed. Disobedient Objects, the new free display in the V&A’s Porter Gallery, is about objects as tools of social change. It’s a highly politicised exhibition and contains a great deal of fascinating material, from films to how-to guides (not quite ‘how to make a bomb’, but nearly).

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