News & Blog
With guest posts from the Manchester blog scene, our arts blog features new writers and is the liveliest culture blog on the block. Plus Manchester art news, UK art news and the inside track on the art and culture beat – all with a distinctly Mancunian accent
CUBE has curve appeal.
Jane Anderson, creative director of design centre CUBE, reveals the secret to the ideal exhibition space. ‘No cobwebs,’ she tells Neil McQuillian
Football pitches and piranha in Manchester – Bolivia.
Take the wrong turn when you’re looking for Manchester, Bolivia, and you might find yourself swimming with the fishes, discovers Neil McQuillian
The summer’s not over yet – contemporary art at Castlefield.
Kevin Bourke discovers the difference between commission and concession, and finds a survival strategy with sweets and tea, all at Castlefield Gallery
Blog: Howard Jacobson and incoming literary news
Britain’s ‘funniest living writer’ heads to Manchester, plus news on three other literary events on the horizon
Fancy yourself an art critic? The Lowry is after a reviewer.
To mark the mid-point of its photography show by Spencer Tunick, The Lowry has teamed up with Creative Tourist to find the best blog entry or review relating to the exhibition
Snap happy. New photography at greenroom.
Matthew Hull examines a series of strange, manipulated images on display at Manchester’s greenroom
Nowt so queer as folk? Manchester Pride begs to differ.
Neil McQuillian discovers how Manchester Pride has evolved from protest to party
Cultureometer.
The Manchizzle’s Kate Feld rounds up what’s been happening on Manchester’s cultural blogs over the summer
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The temple of 1,000 bells.Brazilian artist Laura Belém signals an early start for this year’s Liverpool Biennial The Brazilian artist Laura... »
The unrealised interviews.The artists working on Cornerhouse's latest group exhibition speak on camera about Unrealised Potential Curator Mike... »
A thoroughly modern woman.Kevin Bourke on a photography exhibition at Manchester Pride that celebrates the activism and achievements of gay and bisexual... »
Dark Horse. Simon Patterson Q&A.The artist speaks to Jessica Lack about Unrealised Potential at Cornerhouse – and explains why he wants to make the Lisson... »
To bee, or not to be?Jo Nightingale discovers a photography project with a real buzz about it You’d have to have had your head in, well,... »
