Manchester vs. Liverpool
In the battle of the arts, does Manchester or Liverpool come out on top?
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
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.
Ideas Worth Fighting For
Stuart Maconie, the broadcaster and travel writer once described by The Times as a ‘national treasure’, talks Andy Pearce at the People’s History Museum about democracy, protest and how a Northern town turned local politics into a global issue.
¡Viva! celebrates Spanish-language film at Cornerhouse
Ben East discovers that Manchester is the only place to experience what Spanish and Latin American film has to offer
Go out and play. Things to do this Easter.
Ben East enjoys an al fresco spring in Manchester – courtesy of outdoor art, riverside larks and an urban park
Art bars: best places to drink and think in Manchester
Ruth Allan finds the best art bars in Manchester – places where the drinks are good but where the music, art and atmosphere is better
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.
