Without its regular funding, it looked like it was all over for the Manchester theatre festival that celebrates new talent – until a few friends stepped in. Theatre in Manchester has rarely looked...
They’ve done it again: Manchester Art Gallery has decorated its stone steps with an abundance of green stuff. Flowers are the thing. And perhaps lush planting, trees in boxes and...
From Yoko Ono’s toilet to a giant inflatable pillow, this new show at The Tetley demonstrates that painting is far from dead, or even dull. It’s been said so many...
A new sculpture show at Yorkshire Sculpture Park reminds us that our elders often knew better. There’s a temptation to focus on the new. A new gallery, a new show,...
A new work by the godfather of pop art has just been unveiled – and it’s one that invites you all aboard. There’s something about seeing Peter Blake in the...
It’s got performance art, Sarah Lucas and Bernard + Edith – and a lesson about why women are not always what they first appear. To be human is to judge...
From Stockhausen to Courtney Pine via a big band, opera and electronica, here’s a weekend in which to rediscover RNCM. The Royal Northern College of Music is sometimes overlooked when...
Leeds Art Gallery hosts an exhibition that spans 100 years and features some of the biggest storytellers in British painting. What happens when you put a writer in charge of...
It is the coup of this year’s MIF15, the conscious coupling of stellar painter Gerhard Richter with composer Arvo Pärt – but why should you go? We’re going to say...
Once maligned as a gastronomic backwater, is Manchester’s food and drink scene really one of the best outside London? We ask foodie Thom Hetherington. A report out late last week...
With high-profile names and around 30 exhibitions crammed into two weeks, LOOK/15 promises to be a photography authority. “This year’s festival has three themes – women, migration and memory –...
We profile the Glaswegian artist as he unveils his new commission for Manchester International Festival – which features wolves and women (Charlotte Rampling, specifically). “Hello? Mum, mum, I’ve told you...
