From beer vending machines to enforced humming, the Manchester International Festival exhibition sees artists and viewers respond to the commands of others. The games artists invent for themselves can be...
Can the Scottish brewpub bring about a punk beer revolution? Maybe not, but it does serve up a very fine barbecue. BrewDog doesn’t just want to serve you a beer...
Philanthropist Thomas Horsfall’s collection of prints, etchings and drawings brought learning – and trees – to inner-city Manchester. Before mass transport, before television and mobile phones, even before photographs were...
Manchester Jewish Museum’s exhibition explores the expat community of Jewish artists in 20th-century Paris – and shows that it still has much to teach us. With one blockbuster Chagall exhibition...
Mikhail Baryshnikov and Willem Dafoe star in MIF’s new adaptation of Daniil Kharms’ absurdist novella. Mikhail Baryshnikov would have been enough for most festivals. You know they could have sold...
MIF’s artistic director talks us through the festival’s evolution – and why he wants Kayne West for the 2015 programme. Alex Poots is a master of the only-just possible....
MIF’s Stravinsky performance was daring and ambitious – and stymied by logistics. It was the kind of thing you heard about at the festival launch and thought: how the blazes are...
The fight to save our honeybees starts here: in the city’s museums and galleries, hotels and art projects. Standing on the roof of Manchester Art Gallery, the city is a...
The urge to collect is instinctive – and provides Richard Wentworth with the raw materials for a nocturnal occurrence in the city. Humans have been keeping collections since we first...
Forget ordinary stand-up: Barbara Nice, Bob Slayer, Al Murray, Alun Cochrane, Jimmy Carr and friends go native in Kendal. Brace yourselves: the Freerange Comedy Festival is back and it’s bigger...
A new contemporary art exhibition ponders what to do with revolution once you’ve got it. You say you want a revolution. Sure, that’s cool, no problem. But what comes next?...
After years of rejections, the Manchester novelist strikes a six figure, two-book deal – and her new book hits the shelves this week. A story like the one Rosie Garland...
