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Boutique Weekender: February 2012

Boutique Weekender: February 2012

Mark the start of spring with this very special, pick n’ mix weekend of art, music, dance and fashion

Art on the edge.

Art on the edge.

The art programme at Manchester International Festival 2011

The Urban Insider: Oxford Road

The Urban Insider: Oxford Road

From bassoons to baboons, Oxford Road has it all going on.

Woman’s work: Mary Kelly at the Whitworth

Woman’s work: Mary Kelly at the Whitworth

From the dawn of women’s lib to the present day, Mary Kelly continues to challenge preconceptions

Do look now.

Do look now.

It’s easy enough to talk about death in contemporary art, yet birth is still surrounded by taboos. Why should that be? asks Emily Morris, inspired by contemporary art collection Birth Rites

Norse to see you.

Norse to see you.

Any ideas our man Matthew Hull might have had of introducing the NICE Festival of Nordic Arts with a cheap joke about a Viking invasion of the North West was immediately deflated once the Director imparted his name…

Blog: Event radar 11 November.

Blog: Event radar 11 November.

This week, Frank Sidebottom returns to Salford, Public Enemy is captured on camera at The Art Corner, Elvis Costello and friends donate secret artworks, the Whitworth warms up for Annie Mac, and Amazonian adventurers are let loose in Manchester Museum.

Video: The Land Between Us at The Whitworth

Black Audio Film Collective, Rachel Whiteread, JMW Turner, Olafur Eliasson: Whitworth Art Gallery curator Mary Griffiths describes why she decided to place such disparate artists cheek-by-jowl in the gallery’s latest show – in this, our exclusive vodcast

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