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…
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…
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…
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…
Visual arts meets Darts on Thursday May 12th when these two vastly contrasting worlds come together for one night only for an original and unexpected cultural fusion – D’Arts Festival – as part of the annual citywide and nocturnal arts extravaganza – Manchester After Hours. D’Arts Festival is set to bring together local darts teams…
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…
The Whitworth Art Gallery is launching a new exhibition, Art_Textiles, celebrating the unique relationship between fine art and the Whitworth’s internationally significant textiles collection. Exploring the ambivalent status of textiles as an art medium, the exhibition will look at how textiles are playing an increasingly central role in contemporary art practice, and how artists have…
The Whitworth has been shortlisted for the UK’s most prestigious architecture prize, the RIBA Stirling Prize. The news comes following its ambitious £15 million redevelopment of the 126 year-old Whitworth before reopening on 14 February, since when over 230,000 have visited the gallery, breaking all previous annual records. The shortlisting acknowledges the work carried out…
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…
