The Manchester galleries using art to try to change the world
Alistair Hudson has long been a champion of"useful art"
"The shot you get was constructed as part of an art project, so what was beamed out on the Six O'Clock News involved sculptural elements and was aestheticised to a certain extent." Hudson explains:"The art market serves a very small number of people in society. Museums in the modern, contemporary era - their programmes have been really driven by the contemporary art market, not necessarily by public interest."
Hudson wants to update those ideas for the 21st Century."What that means is you start to get involved in shaping and contributing to the infrastructure of society and how it works, not just creating a leisure resource or a tourist attraction. Platt Hall in Fallowfield, Manchester, is a third venue under Hudson's control. It was the Gallery of Costume until recently, but the costumes had to be moved because of a moth infestation.
The park will also gain a newly-reconstructed version of a road Ruskin once attempted to build with the help of 12 University of Oxford undergraduates, including Oscar Wilde and Hardwicke Rawnsley, who went on to found the National Trust.
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