Mima boss Alistair Hudson is the new director of Whitworth and Manchester Art Galleries. He will take over in January following the departure of Maria Balshaw, now running Tate galleries across the UK. Hudson is known as a champion for social change through art and has promised to lead the galleries’ work “across the region in projects that have real impact in people’s lives”. He was on the Turner Prize panel when it was awarded to a group of artistic architects, and once asked Ray Davies to put on a children’s Kinks musical. Hudson’s appointment will see him leave the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima). His dual directorship builds on the ever-closer partnership between Manchester Art Gallery and The Whitworth.
- Words:
- Fat Roland
- Published on:
- Sat 14 Oct 2017
