Is London’s Victoria and Albert Museum in trouble? “Ever since Elizabeth Esteve-Coll offered us that memorable marketing pitch of ‘An ace caff with quite a nice museum attached’ – and told us via the BBC World Service that the problem with her museum was that it dealt in historical artefacts – we have been left with the impression that, for the powers-that-be at the V&A the contents of this great, amorphous, impossible, wonderful institution are, somehow, faintly embarrassing.” – London Evening Standard