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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Nadia Khomami and Maya Wolfe-Robinson

Manchester University staff sign letter in support of Whitworth gallery director

Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester.
Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester. Sources said the university had explicitly cited Hudson’s response to the fallout from the exhibition as reason for his alleged ousting. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

More than 100 members of staff at the University of Manchester have signed a letter opposing an attempt to force out the director of the Whitworth Art Gallery (WAG), calling it a “grave violation of academic and artistic freedom of expression.”

The Guardian reported last week that Alistair Hudson was asked to leave his post by the university over a row regarding a statement of solidarity with Palestine’s “liberation struggle”, which was removed from an exhibition of works by the human rights investigations agency Forensic Architecture.

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