An art day’s night.
As the nights get longer, Matthew Hull looks forward to the chance to wear his ridiculous fluffy hat and fingerless gloves. Oh yes, and to next week’s Long Night Festival...
Written by Matthew Hull
Blankweekend.
Cuts and efficiency measures may be putting the squeeze on art but, thankfully, Blank Media Collective is bucking the recessionary trend, finds Matthew Hull The cuts are upon us, and...
The Arts Are All Right. Buy Art Fair opens.
It is the largest gallery show in the North of England – with some big names under its belt (Hirst, Banksy, Emin). But do the locals get a look-in at...
Seamus Heaney. The only kind of truth.
Poet Seamus Heaney didn’t mean much to him as a teenager, admits Matthew Hull. But now, like everyone else in Manchester, he’s desperate for a ticket for his Manchester Literature...
It was like being parachuted onto the set of a war film.’
As his new photo show opens at Imperial War Museum North, Gulf War artist John Keane describes life behind the front line to Matthew Hull ‘It was just very unreal....
Vacuum wrapped and cutting edge. The AND Festival begins.
Matt Hull is nearly deafened by the buzz of art anticipation as the Abandon Normal Devices festival arrives in Manchester Representing the best in new cinema and digital culture, the...
The secret 60s: ‘we were making it up as we went along’
Philip Townsend presided over the first ever photo shoot of the Rolling Stones. Briefed by their manager to ‘look mean and nasty’, the pics reveal instead blues-obsessed middle-class boys –...
Snap happy. New photography
at greenroom.
at greenroom.
Matthew Hull examines a series of strange, manipulated images on display in an exhibition at Manchester’s greenroom Digital cameras, for all their user friendliness, have killed off a singular photographic...
5 of the best… Manchester Jazz Festival.
Matthew Hull gives us his highlights for the 15th annual Manchester Jazz Festival 1. Mr. Scruff: Keep it Unreal Band on the Wall hosts a special MJF installment of the...
Impractical proposal. Unrealised Potential opens
at Cornerhouse.
at Cornerhouse.
Matt Hull finds the Cornerhouse galleries humming with artistic potential as a new group exhibition – featuring among others Simon Patterson and Liam Gillick – opens this weekend A lamp...
Watch Point. Free Outdoor Sports Screenings in Manchester.
England might be out but Murray is still in. Matthew Hull reckons it’s worth catching the last of the sporting action at the giant outdoor screens in Spinningfields and Castlefield...
Ever Growing, Never Old: Toby Paterson and a Soviet obsession
Matthew Hull gets a taste of the former Soviet Union… at a roadside gallery in Manchester Pavement, a window-front art space set within one of the city’s university campuses, provides...