Jeanette Winterson on the transforming power of art

As Manchester’s Whitworth reopens, Jeanette Winterson reflects on looking at art, and talks to the gallery’s director Maria Balshaw about capturing its flamboyant Victorian spirit in an exhilarating new public spaceThe Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester reopens this weekend with the message “Fall in love again”. It’s the right message. Creativity in all its forms is a passionate engagement with making something happen. Like falling in love, art is a disturbance of what is; a reorderin