Artists shun exhibition amid Whitworth row over Palestine statement

Group say they are appalled by university’s attempt to force out gallery directorA group of artists are pulling their work from the Manchester leg of a prestigious touring art exhibition after the director of the Whitworth art gallery was asked to leave his post following a row over the removal of a statement of solidarity with Palestine’s “liberation struggle”.The 23 artists – including the Turner prize winners Helen Cammock, Tai Shani and Oscar Murillo – wer