Features
Six of the best: secret gardens.
Park aficionado Kath Horwill shares her pick of the city’s little-known green retreats
Bright young Fela.
Fela! is the latest production to be simulcast live at Cornerhouse, but does theatre deliver the same punch on screen?
To bee, or not to be?
Photography with a buzz about it – Ed Swinden points a camera at those battling to sustain Britain’s bees
Impractical proposal. Unrealised Potential opens at Cornerhouse.
Matt Hull finds a gallery humming with potential
Fancy a brew?
Laura Mansfield investigates the art of domestic revival with Salford designer Megan Price, AKA Mr. PS
It’s the journey, not the destination.
Tatton Park Biennial artist Neville Gabie talks about climate change, Tatton’s last baron &, er, kerbstones
A street history of the nude. Daniel Miller on Spencer Tunick.
As the latest UK exhibition of Spencer Tunick finds its feet at The Lowry, Daniel Miller uncovers the reasons why Spencer, like so many artists, chooses to work with the nude. Plus, a behind-the-scenes vodcast of what it was actually like to bare all in Salford this spring.
The doyenne of British photography: Dorothy Bohm
Manchester Art Gallery’s current major exhibition, A World Observed, traces the career of one of the doyennes of British photography, Dorothy Bohm, and plunders this octogenarian’s archives to put together the first real retrospective exhibition of her work ever to be staged – featuring 250 works that trace a career spanning six decades and several continents. In this exclusive vodcast, Dorothy talks candidly about her career to her daughter (and co-curator of the exhibition), Monica.
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West Africa: a spotter’s guide
New art and music fest We Face Forward has its eyes on West Africa. Don’t know your Ghana from The Gambia? Our potted guide will get you started
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Come over for dinner? Supper clubs in Manchester.
The best places to eat in Manchester – in the comfort of someone else’s home
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Boutique Weekender: Your Guide to Summer (pt.1)
We mark the launch of major art fest, We Face Forward, with a guide to the best culture in the city this summer
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