Nicholas Serota - Why Contemporary Art Matters

Maria Balshaw is Director of the Whitworth Gallery (which won Museum Of The Year last year) and Manchester City Galleries. For her episode of Artsnight, Maria Balshaw asks why, over 100 years since the suffragette movement, are women still not equal. To help her answer the question she talks to artist Sarah Lucas, who emerged onto the British art scene in the late 1980s as one of the YBAs. Last year she represented Britain at the Venice International Art Biennale. This year she gives a rare TV interview to Artsnight. Maria meets Glenda Jackson, undoubtedly one of our key public figures with two highly successful careers - one in acting and one in politics. And in a quest to understand how to redress the imbalance, she profiles a collector and a prize both focussed on women artists.