If new Tate Director Maria Balshaw is to succeed in her intention to radically transform the gallery’s audience profile, she will need to mimic her predecessor Nicholas Serota and ‘grasp the nettle’, writes Will Gompertz.
"We are about a third of the way down the road," she says.
Having been one the major players behind Manchester's recent cultural renaissance, she takes on the leadership of the Tate with palpable energy and ambition.
Her intention, she says, is to change the Tate in the next 20 years as much as her predecessor - Sir Nicholas Serota - changed it in the last two decades.
Given that he ov... Keep reading on BBC
"We are about a third of the way down the road," she says.
Having been one the major players behind Manchester's recent cultural renaissance, she takes on the leadership of the Tate with palpable energy and ambition.
Her intention, she says, is to change the Tate in the next 20 years as much as her predecessor - Sir Nicholas Serota - changed it in the last two decades.
Given that he ov... Keep reading on BBC