To see the art takes days; you start in the centre & follow a network of trails to find it
In our new sculpture park series, we discover the UK’s largest haul of site-specific sculpture – in a forest in the Lakes. When you think of Land Art, you might think of Robert Smithson’s epic…
A homage to the kinds of cafés that are ten-a-penny in New York, it's a coffee geek’s dream
In our tireless hunt for the best coffee experience in the North, we test out Bold Street Coffee’s little brother. Liverpool is a place that appreciates the importance of a good brew. Walk down practically…
Often, festivals can feel a bit detached from their setting. Not here.
A photography festival brings Rankin, Martin Parr and Charles Fréger to Liverpool – and takes a view on that old Liverpool-Manchester rivalry. LOOK/13, the biennial photo fest that opens in Liverpool this weekend, is an…
Electronic, mashed-up blues provide a soundtrack to Wentworth’s exhibition in a night
Richard Wentworth and friends curate an after-hours experience in Manchester this week – prepare to get lost and found. Fancy a night at the museum? Good. You’ve come to the right place. As the nationwide…
For as long as I’ve been here we haven’t had fine dining that could stand up to London. Now we do.
Has The Midland finally made fine dining in Manchester a reality? You’d better speak to newly confirmed Roganite, Kate Feld. The reopening of The French this spring sent ripples of excitement around the city. A…
Is that crackling static evidence of the afterlife, or just how suggestible we humans are?
Can the dead speak? An evening of music, sound art and performance is inspired by the idea that yes, they can. “Electric voice phenomena” – depending on one’s suggestibility, it either constitutes evidence of the…
A mystery tour, a people’s museum: an exhibition in a night...
Three days of after-hours events led by the artist Richard Wentworth celebrate the very best of our museums and galleries. A mystery tour, a people’s museum: an exhibition in a night. What links them all,…
It is a million miles from the roaring traffic of the Oxford Road visible from its windows
Victorian ephemera? Check. Artists’ books? Check. It may be small, but this is one Manchester museum that has more than a few treasures up its sleeve. Some things are kept hidden away. Kept behind closed…
After a £50m revamp, Liverpool’s historic venue chooses Light Night to mark its grand revival. At a time when many of us are forced to campaign against the closure of our local libraries, it’s refreshing…
The woman responsible for changing Manchester’s art scene opens up about life at the helm of two of its flagship galleries. Maria Balshaw is a busy woman. Our interview had to be scheduled several weeks…
Shelley’s epic poem, written in the wake of the Peterloo Massacre, gets a theatrical airing in the place that inspired it. From the first, Manchester International Festival has made good on its ambition to produce…
The city must surely have had its fill of new restaurant openings, right? Wrong, as this little beauty demonstrates. Artisan pies, craft beer and the Northern Quarter: some things just seem destined to be together….
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