Manchester’s street artists find a creative way around council sanctions. In the absence of meadows, Manchester has its own perennials: the fly-posters that appear like wildflowers and which paper the...
The Industrial Revolution may have occurred 150 years ago, but its influence lingers on – in music, art and popular culture – as the premiere of Jeremy Deller’s new show...
Their dream-like sequences and sexual tension were scandalous. Now a new exhibition reveals how one Pre Raphaelite was a man out of time. More than most, the Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood...
Can the dead speak? An evening of music, sound art and performance is inspired by the idea that yes, they can. “Electric voice phenomena” – depending on one’s suggestibility, it...
Shelley’s epic poem, written in the wake of the Peterloo Massacre, gets a theatrical airing in the place that inspired it. From the first, Manchester International Festival has made good...
Thatcher may have “inspired” a generation of protest art, but a new show reveals an emerging generation using art for political means. Can protest be curated? Or does the act...
Graveyard tours are all the rage; we take a roll-call of Southern Cemetery’s famous interments. Inevitably, The Smiths will be brandished. How could they not? Their celebration in song of...
We pull apart the shortlist for Manchester’s £10,000 literary prize With the brouhaha of the Man Booker having barely faded away, it hardly seems unreasonable to ask whether we really...
Desmond Bullen pulls apart the shortlist for Manchester’s £10,000 literary prize and puts his money on local lass, Jeanette Winterson With the brouhaha of the Man Booker having barely faded...
