Sculpture Triangle: Yorkshire’s curiously-shaped art trail
The Sculpture Triangle is a handy way of promoting what’s on at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the Hepworth and around – but there’s something else in it, too. When is a...
Written by Susie Stubbs
Ai Weiwei and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park coup
YSP has done something no other British gallery has managed in four years – brought work by the dissident Chinese artist to the UK for a solo exhibition. I’ve never...
May Day! May Day! Someone seems to have gone crazy with the Bank Holidays!
(Or: ten things to do in Manchester and beyond this May Bank Holiday.) Bank Holidays, what are they like? You wait ages and then three come along all at once....
Light Night: Liverpool’s late night opening
Museums at Night in Liverpool is a big affair – as you might expect from this former Capital of Culture. Liverpool’s moment in the cultural sun was epic. When the...
English National Ballet & Second Breath: Britain’s most inventive choreographer comes to IWM North
Acclaimed dancer Russell Maliphant stages an ambitious new commission at Manchester’s war museum – as part of Museums at Night. Interesting things are afoot at IWM North. Not just interesting...
Three good things
at MOSI in 2014: A new director, a large hadron collider and a silent disco
at MOSI in 2014: A new director, a large hadron collider and a silent disco
MOSI may be about to wave goodbye to its current director, but the museum shows no sign of slowing down – in fact, things may be about to get giddy…...
Red in tooth and claw: Manchester Museum unravels our animal nature
From the War of Nature starts with a blood-dripping painting and ends with a lesson on environmental responsibility – but does it try to cram too much in? There’s an...
The Albert Hall goes classical with Manchester Camerata
The name “Albert Hall” may conjure up a grand, orchestral image – but an upcoming concert by the Camerata will be the first time an orchestra has ever played the...
The Grand Depart: A creative tourist’s guide
The world, her husband and quite possibly their sheep and dogs will head to Yorkshire this summer to see sport’s greatest spectator event – the Tour de France. Here’s our...
Glasgow International 2014: Inflatable art, nail bars & dystopian visions in Scotland’s creative capital
As Glasgow gears up for its biennial festival of visual art, we publish a guide to the city, and an overview of a festival considered by some to be the...
Book now: Indy Man Beer Con is back for a third year
Real ale and craft beer lovers rejoice: Indy Man Beer Con tickets are now on sale, with some surprises in store… It’s fair to say that craft beer is having...
BCNMCR: The best of Barcelona’s design talent heads to Manchester
BCNMCR design showcase returns – proving that creative collaboration has truly turned international. What’s Barcelona got that Manchester doesn’t? Apart from sunshine, Gaudi, the Sónar festival, a beach, cable cars...