Welcome home, Frank Cohen.
Susie Stubbs meets one of the world’s most influential art collectors
Wallpaper at the Whitworth
How artists from Hirst to Warhol put the background into the foreground
Master of disaster – Don McCullin
The world’s most famous war photographer opens a new show in Manchester
The Top 25 UK Arts & Culture Blogs.
Online now: the fourth Top 25 UK Arts & Culture Blogs. Guardian favourites and a slew of independent bloggers racing up the charts – it’s all here.
Arachnophobia. Carlos Amorales creeps out the Cornerhouse.
Mexican multimedia artist Carlos Amorales takes over Gallery One at Cornerhouse with two haunting and complex video-based works – timed to mark the Viva Spanish & Latin American Film Festival
Brazilian photographer wins The Art of the City competition
It’s official: Creative Tourist announces the winner and runners-up of its first open photography competition, The Art of the City, after being flooded with over 1,200 entries
Crib sheet. Your guide to…People’s History Museum.
Try our new series of ‘crib sheets’ for size – handy downloadable fact sheets for this season’s biggest art shows in Manchester. First in the series: The People’s History Museum.
Everything’s gone green. Expansion plans for the Whitworth Art Gallery.
The planned £12m expansion of Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery will bring the outside in. Kate Feld talks to the architects behind the scheme ahead of the final funding bid
Three for me. BBC Radio’s Allan Beswick on Manchester landmarks.
BBC Radio Manchester’s Allan Beswick, the breakfast show presenter known for putting local politicians through their paces, gives us his three favourite Manchester landmarks. Now, glass of Vimto, anyone?
International Man of Mystery. DBC Pierre reads in Manchester.
Matthew Hull digs through the triumphs and failures of one of fiction’s most notorious writers – DBC Pierre – ahead of his long-awaited performance in Manchester
Ill communication. New art exhibition at Castlefield.
Leo Fitzmaurice and Kim Rugg bring their communication art to Castlefield Gallery for a new contemporary art show that takes commercial communications media (newspapers, adverts, comics) and subverts them into the sublime
People’s History Museum. Behind the scenes.
Susie Stubbs goes behind the scenes at the People’s History Museum as it goes into its ‘test drive’ period – plus your chance to win tickets to its opening party
