Picnic Cinema: An outdoor treat for cineastes
Pack popcorn, a torch and someone to grab during the scary bits – Picnic Cinema is back with its brand of unusual outdoor film screenings. Pop-up cinemas are nothing new....
Written by Susie Stubbs
Summertime – and if the living ain’t easy,
at least the sun’s out. Oh, hold on…
at least the sun’s out. Oh, hold on…
(Or: ten things to do in Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield, Leeds and beyond this summer.) Summer. The sun is shining, the birds are singing and each evening stretches into the night...
Designival: It’s all Bowie album covers and good design up north
The return of one of the country’s biggest design festivals boasts some suitably big design names. There’s not much we like more than a bit of good design. Which is...
Our top 10 fish and chip shops. Do you want fries with that?
It’s hard to get this humble British dish right – but we’ve scouted around to find the places that do a mean chippy supper. Ah, sweet summertime. A season of...
Dig the City 2014: The city goes green
Manchester’s urban gardening festival makes a welcome return – with show gardens, pop-ups and fabulous florals. When it launched last year, Dig the City seemed like a slightly curious thing....
What a week. Three things not to miss: Liverpool Biennial, Grand Depart, Ryan Gander
This week looks set to be the best of the cultural summer so for – as our run-down of what’s on proves. Good things come in threes. Well, they do...
Tom Frost
at Yorkshire Sculpture Park: Illustration like it used to be
at Yorkshire Sculpture Park: Illustration like it used to be
A new illustration show at YSP proves that nostalgia isn’t always a bad thing. Not when there’s cider involved. There’s something about Tom Frost’s new exhibition that has a hint...
Ryan Gander, local artists and Castlefield Gallery
As Manchester Art Gallery prepares to open a show by the critically acclaimed artist, so too does Castlefield – with a twist. What are the perfect conditions in which art...
Allan Kaprow’s YARD
at The Hepworth: It’s all happening
at The Hepworth: It’s all happening
A new immersive, interactive and large-scale artwork by the pioneer of 1960s performance art makes for an unusual experience in Wakefield. Allan Kaprow was a man who realized earlier than...
Ryan Gander: Make Every Show Like It’s Your Last
Ryan Gander is a rising art star – and he’s also a local (ish) lad whose major new show is about to blow the lid off Manchester Art Gallery. “The...
The ghosts of signage past: typography
at Manchester’s Central Library
at Manchester’s Central Library
The fanfare around its reopening may have died down, but now’s the time to discover the finer details at Central Library, such as these typographic ghosts. Vincent Van Gogh: the...
Little Girl lost: Memories of August 1914 comes to Liverpool
Building-sized puppets once again stalk Liverpool’s streets this summer – we get the latest on the return of the Little Girl. Giant spiders, car-sized dogs, a giant girl wandering the...