While focussing energy on hyperrealism, Rebekah Williamson has attracted more than 2,000 likes on her Facebook page and will travel to New York to showcase her work to potential clients in March.

To celebrate LGBT History Month, MM talk to actor and ‘shock in a frock’ drag artist Dan Wallace aka Anna Phylactic about his experience of coming out and what progress Manchester still has to make towards equality.

A giant ‘chess set sculpture for the people of East Manchester’ will not go the way of the disastrous B of the Bang project, the council have promised.

For the first time ever, Manchester artist LS Lowry’s paintings are being exhibited outside of the UK at The Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts in China

Lucy Burscough’s Look200 unique exhibit is on show at Manchester’s Royal Eye Hospital to celebrate the city’s contributions to our understanding of the human eye

A collective of Manchester spoken word artists will take centre stage this month at the Contact Theatre in a night of poetry, prose and performance to mark Black History Month.

Manchester cartoonist keen to show off more of her work

Jez Dolan, from Manchester, will visit The University of Texas at Austin later this month to scour through the pages of a rarely accessed journal kept by George Cecil Ives from 1867 – 1950

Manchester will become awash with colour and culture as the nation’s biggest art fair outside of London will settle in to its new location at the iconic Old Granada Studios later this month.

Hot up and coming singer Sinead Harnett believes collaborating with major artists really ‘opened her eyes’ to the industry after a scintillating performance at Chadderton Baths.

MM spoke with up and coming music artist Kwabs ahead of his Lumia Sessions gig at Chadderton Baths in Oldham.