Susie Stubbs

Creative Tourist is undergoing a behind-the-scenes facelift: your new art and culture blog will be unveiled next month Most of you will know that Creative Tourist was set up to...

As David Shrigley puts the finishing touches to his Cornerhouse exhibition, we try and pin down a most puzzling artist David Shrigley is darkly, disarmingly funny. His survey show at...

The art blog: Times are tough, but things would have to get a lot worse before the city starts selling off our art. Right? Susie Stubbs starts to wonder.  Last week...

Why does culture matter? It’s the economy, stupid. Cornerhouse Manchester’s Dave Moutrey finds time to tell us why the arts in Manchester are worth investing in Dave Moutrey is a...

A new photography exhibition reveals the complexity of war via the use of an obsolete military surveillance technique. Pink – there’s a colour. Little girls are supposed to love it;...

Mark Leckey’s super-sonic art exhibition is in its final weeks – see it now, plus a chance to win a signed poster. Mark Leckey is the sort of artist who...

 As Manchester Histories Festival kicks off, Dave Haslam reckons Manchester’s music history is all up for grabs. There is nothing so murky as the past. One person’s cast-iron memory is...

The latest contemporary art exhibition at the Cornerhouse galleries sets out to ask some unsettling questions What makes a woman beautiful? The Greeks and the Romans had their ideal –...

On the eve of a new exhibition at the Whitworth that explores our centuries-old appetite for clothes (and cotton), ethical writer Lucy Siegle tells us that fashion is wearing out...

Can the North West support a commerical art gallery? At the opening of Samantha Donnelly’s Countour States exhibition at Cornerhouse, Susie Stubbs spoke with the artist’s agent, gallerist Ceri Hand,...

Visiting Manchester? Want to find out more about what makes Manchester (and Mancunians) tick? Look no further than our potted guide to Manchester past and present. Susie Stubbs and Jonathan...

What price progress? It may be the unanswerable question but it is one posed by this remarkable image – a still that shows the uncomfortable proximity of old and new,...