Ruth Mackenzie: 'There's no time to mess around'

As the new director of the Cultural Olympiad, Ruth Mackenzie has just two years to come up with a world-beating programme. In her first interview, she tells Charlotte Higgins her planWith her chic black outfits and avant-garde hair (short back and sides, elegant Cruella de Vil-ish streaks of black amid the grey), Ruth Mackenzie might have stepped out of an Otto Dix painting, or a production of Berg's Lulu. "Formidable" is a word people often use to describe her. She will need to be: as the new ...

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