If you haven’t seen Tibor Recih and Nico Vascellari’s exhibitions at Manchester’s Whitworth yet, time is quickly running out. Post-ward textile designer Tibor Reich’s exhibition runs until 28 August. The exhibition, honouring design heritage, evaluates the way in which he shaped design discourse throughout the mid-twentieth century. Featuring Reich’s innovative textiles, photography, ceramics and drawings,…
£100,000 funding to assist new commissions and exhibitions as part of UK-India year of culture Manchester City Galleries will receive £100,000 from Arts Council England to develop a series of new commissions, exhibitions and performances by Indian artists, known as Reimagine India. The work, in partnership with Indian arts organisations will be featured in The…
Manchester Art Gallery has been shortlisted for the 2016 Family Friend Museum Award, the only award in Britain in which children and families are given the chance to vote for the shortlisted organisations. The Award, organised by Kids in Museums, is also the largest museum award in Britain. Kids in Museums is an independent charity…
This June, the Whitworth, Manchester’s gallery in the park, hosts a warped weekend of art, music and the unexpected beneath the trees. Programmed by 15-25 year olds from across Greater Manchester, the festival celebrates the installation of a major new sculpture in Whitworth Park by the Turner Prize-nominated artist, Anya Gallaccio. The Festival has been…
Opening on 24 June 2016, Manchester Art Gallery will present a solo exhibition by Gabonese artist Boris Nzebo entitled Urban Style. Boris Nzebo’s work explores themes of modern urban life and reflects upon ideas of identity, depicting complex narratives from daily life in the city. Ranging from large-scale paintings to his latest work with steel…
Manchester’s The Whitworth is set to host Elizabeth Price Curates, an innovative exhibition of works by over 70 artists brought together by the Turner Prize winning artist. The exhibition, titled In A Dream You Saw A Way To Survive And You Were Full Of Joy, explores the power of the horizontal in art. In this…
Manchester Art Gallery is set to present Vogue 100: A Centure of Style, an exhibition showcasing 280 modern and vintage prints, 100 years of cutting-edge fashion and portrait photography by British Vogue. The exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery will also include a special library display of 101 Vogue magazines, one per year of the magazine’s…
From 24 June 2016 the Whitworth will unveil a new public sculpture by internationally acclaimed British artist Anya Gallaccio in Whitworth Park. In only the second permanent public sculpture of her career the artist will reimagine in steel a tree removed from the park during the Whitworth’s £15 million redevelopment by architects MUMA (McInnes Usher…
Manchester’s newly reopened The Whitworth has announced its next major exhibition is set to be the first UK show from the renowned M+ Sigg Collection. The exhibition, Four Decades of Chinese Art, will bring together 80 significant works from leading contemporary Chinese artists including Ai Weiwei, Cao Fei and Zhang Peili Four Decades of Chinese…
A fascinating display of works by 30 Chinese artists is set to feature across Manchester from 27th September until 23rd November in response to the theme of ‘conflict and compassion’ examining the conflicts and harmony of China. The exhibition comes after three decades of change in mainland China which has seen unprecedented political reform, economic…
