Real ‘age turner: Manchester library explores our connection to written word
Manchester bookworms are invited to flick through the ages with the latest exhibition coming to Central Library.
Ten Skepta facts: Grime MC on hipster hate and ‘British dream’ at Manchester Red Bull Music Academy talk
After stepping off an eight hour flight from New York to Manchester, grime MC Skepta kicked back to sit comfortably on the Red Bull music tour sofa with journalist Hattie Collins.
You won’t believe it’s not photography! Meet Market Street’s hyperrealism artist
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.
LGBT History Month Q&A: Anna Phylactic opens up on being ‘outed’ when brother showed diary to whole school
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.
Dad’s Halo Effect: B of the Bang fiasco ‘must not put Manchester off public art’
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.
Artist of the people: LS Lowry’s work heads to China in first exhibition outside UK
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
Artist’s skewed visions celebrate Manchester’s scEYEntific work
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
Spoken word night will show Manchester there’s ‘more to black history than slavery’
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.
Packing a political Punch: Manchester artist keen to show off more of her satirical cartoons
Manchester cartoonist keen to show off more of her work
The Order of Chaeronea: Salford artist jets off to Texas to study poet behind world’s first secret gay society
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
Fresh start for fine art: Buy Art Fair returns to Manchester in iconic Old Granada Studios
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.