Tristram Hunt

South Kensington

Contributor at The Guardian

Director of @V_and_A - the world's greatest museum of art, design & performance

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a glittering global tale of power and beauty

1 week ago | spearswms.com | Tristram Hunt

In my eight years as director of the V&A, we've had some memorable subtitles for exhibitions. For Christian Dior in 2019 it was 'Designer of Dreams'; for Coco Chanel in 2023 it was 'A Fashion Manifesto'. (On the other hand, our suggestion for a planned Monty Python exhibition, 'From Dali to Dead Parrots', didn't go down so well.
Comment | 'The government needs to cancel the British Council’s debt'

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Tristram Hunt |Robert Hewison |Gareth Harris

The mission of the British Council—a body established in 1934 as a cultural bulwark against fascism and communism—has always been beautifully clear: “to create in a country overseas a basis of friendly knowledge and understanding of the people of this country, of their philosophy and way of life”.
How to give back looted objects

1 month ago | apollo-magazine.com | Tristram Hunt

How to give back looted objects THIS ARTICLE IS FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY In 2023, representatives from the Nisga’a Nation of Canada travelled to the National Museum of Scotland to bring back a memorial pole that had been stolen in the early 20th century. Photo: Neil Hanna
Can Britain’s fragile pottery industry survive?

1 month ago | apollo-magazine.com | Tristram Hunt

Growing up in the 1930s in Tunstall, one of the Six Towns of Stoke-on-Trent, the writer Paul Johnson used to sit at night with his adoring mother watching ‘the volcano landscape’ of the Potteries.
Why it’s imperative that schoolchildren have access to art and design classes

2 months ago | countrylife.co.uk | Tristram Hunt

The Manchester Tiara (below) is among the most sublime achievements of the House of Cartier. Made in Paris, in 1903, to the order of Consuelo, Dowager Duchess of Manchester, this triumph of graduated flaming hearts and C scrolls — made up of more than 1,000 brilliant-cut and more than 400 rose-cut diamonds — was inspired by a vision of pre-revolutionary France.
Culture is a major tourist draw for the UK — let’s start charging to preserve it

2 months ago | ft.com | Tristram Hunt

The writer is director of the Victoria and Albert Museum French President Emmanuel Macron’s masterful ruse to get foreigners to pay for a...
Tristram Hunt explains why museums are turning themselves inside out

Nov 19, 2024 | economist.com | Tristram Hunt

Opening up museums’ storehouses can improve transparency and accountability, says the director of the V&ABy Tristram Hunt, director, V&A“But where have you hidden all the other stuff?” This is the perennial question for museum directors, as we are accused of secretly stockpiling vast, unseen treasure troves. The truth is, in our hunger for audiences, we always want to put the best material on display, and as much of it as possible.
The London Question: is London now financially impossible for artists and creatives?

Oct 9, 2024 | standard.co.uk | Tristram Hunt

CommentLet’s be more like Oslo, where they actually make the city liveable for artistsGet our award-winning daily news email featuring exclusive stories, opinion and expert analysisI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. Not many countries put a portrait of extreme mental anguish at the forefront of their tourism campaigns.
In memory of Dame Elizabeth Esteve-Coll • V&A Blog

Sep 22, 2024 | vam.ac.uk | Tristram Hunt

“There’s something in the V&A for everybody – that is what I’d like everybody to know”Dame Elizabeth Esteve-CollWe were very saddened to learn of the recent loss of Dame Elizabeth Esteve-Coll. Dame Elizabeth was Director of the V&A 1987 to 1995, following a successful period as Head of the National Art Library. Dame Elizabeth first joined the V&A as a librarian and was Keeper of the National Art Library (NAL).
Should UK museums remain free?

Jun 2, 2024 | apollo-magazine.com | Tristram Hunt

From the June 2024 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. One part of the culture wars battlefield that has remained curiously calm over the last few years is the question of free entry to UK national museums. The 1997 Labour Party manifesto committed Tony Blair’s government to introduce open admission to those museums and galleries sponsored directly by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

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