Our pick of the best art exhibitions in Manchester, Liverpool, Cumbria and the North, from blockbuster art exhibitions at Tate Liverpool and Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery, through to the sorts of smaller, edgier shows at artist-led galleries and institutions such as Castlefield Gallery in Manchester and Liverpool’s the Royal Standard.
This was an exercise in curatorial magic. It proved that art is alchemy.
What happened during Manchester’s two nights of #lovecollecting, curating and artistic alchemy. Richard Wentworth is a very good teacher. We have watched him shape and guide a flimsy idea about what to do for Museums…
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…
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…
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…
People shouldn’t like everything. We need to provoke discussion.
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…
It’s an apt setting for an event that could be seance or exorcism, funeral mass or rallying cry
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…
Lost & Found is an accidental trailblazer for Manchester International Festival
The urge to collect is instinctive – and provides Richard Wentworth with the raw materials for a nocturnal occurrence in the city. Humans have been keeping collections since we first moved through the forests clutching…
Candles light up a cathedral, the Tate turns 25, & that’s just for starters
Fifty museums and galleries stage late-night events in a dizzying celebration of art and culture. “Legacy” is a word that gets bandied about a fair bit these days, especially in the arts, and it’s one…
Mandy Barker’s images are inspired by the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – and are both brilliant and terrible. Plastic: the human invention from which so much is made but which is rapidly becoming the bane…
The story of how a former public toilet became the focal point for Northern Quarter street art. The Out House project began life as a simple idea: to re-use a dour toilet block as a…
A tiny gig in a tiny gallery heralds a new direction for a Northern Quarter art space. The Richard Goodall Gallery, currently gracing two locations in the never-unfashionable Northern Quarter, has always had something of…
Stephen Hurrel’s Beneath and Beyond fuses science and art in a terrestrial symphony. Ever wondered what Planet Earth sounds like? A sound art installation at MOSI, one that explores cause and effect, feedback loops and…
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