Jenny Stein obituary

<p>My mother, Jenny Stein, who has died aged 99, was the first female artistic director of the Riverside Arts Centre in west London, where she was responsible for opening the Riverside Gallery. Prior to that she spent two years as acting director of the Whitechapel Gallery in London, after having lived for a decade in South Africa, where she became involved in anti-apartheid activism.</p><p>Jenny was born in London to Allen Hutt, night editor of the Daily Worker newspaper, and Norma (nee Garwood), a secretary. She was a boarder at the progressive Summerhill school in Suffolk, after which she began working as a film assistant at the Crown Film Unit in London during the second world war.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/oct/03/jenny-stein-obituary">Continue reading...</a>