Taking the careers of two 20th-century painters, this exhibition delves into ideas about art and recognition. Two painters, alike in dignity – so begins the story of L.S. Lowry and...
One of our Cultural Calendar top picks for 2015, this new film and installation at Site Gallery interrogates ideas around freedom. It’s an unusual way to see in the New...
A series of performances that blend music and words kicks off this evening at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation. Anthony Burgess was a man of both words and music –...
Gruff Rhys brings a topographical, musical masterpiece to Manchester Academy – and we’re giving away a pair of tickets. Gruff Rhys’ latest project, which spans an album, book, film and...
If you had to list just one thing you’re looking forward to this year, what would it be? We ask some of the north’s cultural movers and shakers. To mark...
Introducing our Advent Calendar – here’s the twenty-fifth post in a cultural countdown to Christmas. With the final box in our 2014 Advent Calendar comes the launch of our Cultural...
This exhibition brings three Japanese artists together for the first time. The result? Stunning work hidden away in Rochdale. Tucked away at the back Touchstones Rochdale’s first floor gallery space...
The cultural countdown to Christmas continues, with the twenty-second post in our advent calendar. Today: A curious incident and the Blitz. The award-winning adaptation of Mark Hadfield’s novel The Curious Incident of...
Our own take on the traditional advent calendar continues – with a daily dose of cultural goodness. A month or so ago, when the winter evenings began drawing in, the Creative...
Introducing our Advent Calendar – here’s the twenty-first post in a cultural countdown to Christmas. Today: Light painting and the longest night. There’s a whole series of light-related events going...
Introducing our Advent Calendar – here’s the twentieth post in a cultural countdown to Christmas. Today: Panic buying and pop-up food Ok, hands up – who’s still not finished their...
The Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art launches video work from two artists that looks in a complicated, layered way at modern China. When did video art get so popular? Alongside...
