Fireworks, graphene, William Blake and Nobel Prize winners all come together for the Whitworth’s launch in February 2015. How best to mark the launch of an art gallery that’s been...
Virgin Trains is running a competition designed to highlight the old north-south divide. So of course we went along for the ride… This week we were asked by Virgin Trains...
Manchester has over 100,000 students returning to the city right about now – which is why the centre’s retailers have decided to do something just for them. Life was so...
The reds are back in town. And, to help the Labour Party Conference delegates find their way around, we’ve made them a very special guide. Manchester. It’s a city that...
The former YBA, an artist perhaps best known for her wordplay, brings some monumental new work to Yorkshire’s outdoor gallery. Fiona Banner is known for several things. Almost winning the Turner...
Wonder Women, the city’s annual, creative celebration of feminism, returns next March, and we’d like you to join us. Feminism. It’s a thing, isn’t it? It causes Twitter storms and...
You’ve been once and now we’d like you to come again – on us. Welcome to Manchester! It’s a city we are proud to call home and one of the...
The two Mercury Award-nominated acts get together to remember World War One – via music old and new at the Howard Assembly Rooms. When we think about what was lost...
The fast-being-built Manchester arts centre adds another stellar artist to its growing list of patrons. It may still resemble a building site, but things are hotting up at HOME. The...
Cornerhouse, one of Manchester’s best loved arts venues, is closing – but not before a spectacular-sounding celebration. Most relationships can be summed up in a single phrase – “it’s complicated”....
In our never-ending quest to find new ways of combining art and the outdoors, we give you Britain’s best art beaches. Drum roll, please…. Oh, we do like to be...
As YSP celebrates its Museum of the Year win, it simultaneously unveils a fragile-looking sculpture by the former enfant terrible of the British art scene. We would never have had...
