Pursuits
V&A’s New German Boss Shuns Titles, Drives Fast Car: Interview
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Martin Roth, the first non-Briton to run the Victoria & Albert Museum, tools around London in a classic Porsche.
After a decade running the Dresden State Art Collections -- a complex of 12 museums -- Roth joins the very British 159-year-old institution that just had a 120 million pound ($192 million) overhaul and needs roughly as much to finish modernizing. His aim is a more international V&A that reaches out to such places as China, Brazil or even Iran.