Our selection of the best cultural, art, music and film festivals, from the colossal likes of Manchester International Festival and Liverpool Biennial to lo-fi types such as Salford’s Sounds from the Other City. Read our festival guides and make the most of your weekends, Bank Holidays or whole summers.
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…
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…
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…
It’s a nod to Liverpool’s literary past & its status as one of the world’s great port cities
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…
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…
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…
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…
From rare vinyl to Marvel comics via taxidermy, human eyeballs and celebrity hair – whatever you collect, share it with the world. We’ll come right out and say it. We have a bit of a…
Liverpool’s new music festival returns – and provides an unusual means of getting to grips with the Scouse city. There was a time when the words “music festival” and “Liverpool” in the same sentence meant…
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