manchester art exhibitions
Arachnophobia. Carlos Amorales creeps out the Cornerhouse.
Mexican multimedia artist Carlos Amorales takes over Gallery One at Cornerhouse with two haunting and complex video-based works – timed to mark the Viva Spanish & Latin American Film Festival
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
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
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.
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.
Over and out. Urbis’ final show.
Ben East goes to Urbis on the eve of its closure and finds a ‘Sunday newspaper supplement’ of a museum, one that covered everything from fine art exhibitions to Hip Hop, via fashion, music, Manga and civil rights.
Wallpaper at the Whitworth
How artists from Hirst to Warhol put the background into the foreground
Master of disaster – Don McCullin
The world’s most famous war photographer opens a new show in Manchester
