manchester art
Soldiers of ink and paper
War Correspondent at Imperial War Museum North
The Urban Insider: Salford and The Quays
Think you know this city? The secret of Salford is it’s not as hard as all that.
More sinned against than sinning.
What do King Lear and Little Richard have in common? They’re both hanging out in Salford Quays this spring, as Matthew Hull discovers. His name might be over the door but there’s more to The Lowry than the great man’s art. The centre, a landmark feature of the Salford Quays waterfront since its opening in [...]
Close By. Castlefield.
Cut through by the Bridgewater Canal (left), studded with red brick warehouses and built on the partially excavated site of a roman fort, Castlefield is an area that wears its past proudly. The much loved MOSI (Manchester’s own Museum of Science & Industry) is largely housed in the historic Liverpool Road railway station but, thanks [...]
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
Wallpaper at the Whitworth
How artists from Hirst to Warhol put the background into the foreground
Violent experiments.
The politically explosive contemporary art of Artur Zmijewski
New art for the people.
Creative Tourist previews the opening of the UK’s leading emerging art showcase – New Contemporaries at Cornerhouse
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Boutique Weekender: February 2012
Mark the start of spring with this very special, pick n’ mix weekend of art, music, dance and fashion
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History lesson.
Visiting Manchester? Want to find out more about what makes Manchester (and Mancunians) tick? Look no further than our potted guide to Manchester past and present. Susie Stubbs and Jonathan Schofield tell all.
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Curiouser and curiouser.
Susie Stubbs gets confused and amused at Tate Liverpool’s latest exhibition, Alice in Wonderland
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