Why it's great news that Frances Morris will run Tate Modern

The Tate veteran has already made her mark, transforming Louise Bourgeois’s reputation and championing female and non-European artists

The first time I met Frances Morris she was trying unsuccessfully to get a model aeroplane factory working. Now she is to run a power station that has become one of the world’s leading galleries of modern art.

Morris’s appointment as the new director of Tate Modern has thrilled the art world. Tate supremo Sir Nicholas Serota describes her as “a brilliant and imaginative curator”, while the praise from those outside the gallery is, if anything, warmer. She is “just a lovely person”, “very decent”, “fiercely intelligent and very generous with it”, the experts enthuse.

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