Maria Balshaw: Tate's director-elect dares artists to be different

The Tate’s choice of leader helped inspire Manchester’s cultural revival and is said to have an instinctive feel for what worksIn 2004, Maria Balshaw was one of 27 people chosen to take part in what was then an experiment to forge a new generation of arts leaders. “If all goes to plan,” as one newspaper put it at the time, the candidates on the Clore leadership programme “will be as significant in the cultural life of Britain in the years to come as Sir Nicholas Ser