Taking inspiration from eighteenth-century fiction – and cucumbers – the artist’s solo exhibition features photography and sculpture. It takes time to understand Becky Beasley’s intentions. Her artworks don’t give up...
As his Manchester International Festival exhibition gets underway, Jessica Lack examines Tino Sehgal’s unusual take on audience participation. Tino Sehgal is known for his intimate and ever-changing performances.
With two major exhibitions dedicated to the artist running this summer, we ask art critic Jessica Lack to pin down the enigma of Marc Chagall. Marc Chagall has been described...
Park your disdain for platforms – the Glam era was as revolutionary as the Punk that followed. It was a dirty, slutty age of badly made jumpsuits and cheap platforms,...
The world premiere of a Chernobyl-inspired film by Jane and Louise Wilson – opening at the Whitworth this week – is oddly elegiac, finds Jessica Lack. The town of Pripyat...
Artists Ford Madox Brown and Adolphe Valette were two visitors to the city who made a lasting impression on Manchester. Jessica Lack investigates. Ford Madox Brown and Adolphe Valette were...
Artist Phil Collins talks to Jessica Lack about Marx and Manchester, Howard Devoto and what he hopes is in store for the free market economy In 2006 Phil Collins held...
As the Whitworth opens its new exhibition, The Land Between Us: Place, Power And Dislocation, Jessica Lack ponders the role of landscape and identity in art Sixty years ago, American...
Jessica Lack speaks to electronic artist and self-confessed nerd Rafael Lozano-Hemmer about his new show in Manchester Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is a techno-alchemist artist who builds digital marvels out of phone...
Brazilian artist Laura Belém signals an early start for this year’s Liverpool Biennial The Brazilian artist Laura Belém walks a tight rope between the idealistic and the cliché. Her installations...
The artist speaks to Jessica Lack about Unrealised Potential at Cornerhouse – and explains why he wants to make the Lisson Gallery disappear In 2003 Mike Chavez-Dawson invited a group...
The insider guide to family holidays and things to do with kids – here, an exhibition of wallpaper at the Whitworth, one of Manchester’s most dynamic art galleries. Don’t climb...
