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
Larger than life. Ron Mueck at Manchester Art Gallery.
Guest blogger Emily Morris is bowled over by the hyper-real sculpture of Ron Mueck, which has just gone on show at Manchester Art Gallery as part of dealer Antony D’Offay’s Artist Rooms tour. Mueck, who trained with Jim Henson as a puppeteer, rose to fame as part of the YBA movement.
Inspired by. The BBC, British Museum and Manchester re-write history.
There’s a revolution in the archives as the BBC and British Museum attempt to document world history, while Manchester’s museums and galleries make sure they get in on the act.
Shaped by War. Don McCullin at Imperial War Museum North.
Acclaimed war photographer, Don McCullin, speaks candidly to Paul Herrmann on the eve of his major exhibition at Imperial War Museum North. Having spent his career either on or close to the front line, McCullin tells Herrmann that it was only when it struck him that ‘the real price of war was civilian’ that he realised the true purpose of war photography: to give a voice to the people in his images, that photography was merely a form of communication.
