Home Manchester has announced its February to September 2018 season of festivals, theatre, film, dance and visual art. The new season includes premieres, co-commissions, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights, touring shows, fiction-film art installations, the return of ¡Viva! And special guests amongst so much more. So, what’s on at Home? Film: Home presents a series of unique…
Women of Science are presenting a digital photography exhibition at the People’s History Museum showcasing and sharing stories of women who work and study in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. Currently just 13% of those working in the industry are women, fuelling misconceptions about who can be a scientist or engineer. With this misconception often influencing…
A new exhibition, Beyond Dementia, has opened at The Whitworth Manchester, exploring the lived experience of dementia and highlighting the positives. Curated by Fabulous Forgetful Friends, the exhibition looks beyond the condition itself and includes artworks created by a group of people living with dementia. These are displayed alongwide works from the Whitworth’s art collection….
Home has revealed a new exhibition The Return of Memory will form part of it’s major Russia season A Revolution Betrayed?, a programme of theatre, visual art and film marking the centenary of the Russian Revolution. The Return of Memory is a contemporary group exhibition delving in to the history, memory and legacy of the…
Girl Gang Manchester’s photography and art exhibition/social experiment #SeeMySelfie is currently running at The Wonder Inn on Shudehill. With the average 16-25 year old woman spending more than five hours a week taking selfies,#SeeMySelfie considers whether the selfie is an empowering act of self love or simply narcissism. It’s a complex and often conflicting question, provoking much…
A series of Kashmir inspired paintings including new work by Raqib Shaw will be displayed at The Whitworth. The collection will include renaissance drawings, sculptures, textiles and limited-edition wallpaper. The exhibition will take the form of an installation, drawing on influences of renaissance and baroque imagery, combined with theatrical extravagance, nature and poetry, to echo…
Home in the City, Bombay 1976 – Mumbai 2016 Sooni Taraporevala’s first UK solo exhibition has launched at The Whitworth in partnership with Sunaparanta, Goa Centre for the Arts. The photographer, screenwriter and filmmaker’s exhibit forms a part of the 2017 programme of events for New North and South a new major contemporary art network…
Solo exhibition of new work by artist and musician John Hyatt Home is set to host a major solo exhibition of new work by John Hyatt, the artist, music, author, scientist, explorer and one third of art rock band The Three Johns. Running from Saturday 4 February until Wednesday 29 March, the showing will look…
Manchester Art Gallery is set to launch its new exhibition, Wynford Dewhurst: Manchester’s Monet, the first retrospective of the English impressionist painter and art theorist since his death in 1941. The exhibition, which launches on 9 December 2016, running until 23 April 2017, will feature many of the controversial artist’s works on public display for the first…
Andy Warhol: Death, politics and selfies come to The Whitworth The Whitworth will draw on the Artist Rooms collection of international modern and contemporary art owned by National Galleries of Scotland and Tate to put together it’s new exhibition – Artist Rooms: Andy Warhol. The exhibition shows the sharp critical opinions of an artist known…
