This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of John Ruskin and to celebrate a series of events and exhibitions are taking place across the city this summer.

This summer Manchester celebrates the life of the artist, art critic and social thinker John Ruskin with a jam-packed festival, funded and supported by Manchester Metropolitan University and Ruskin’s Guild of St George. As MM found out, even 200 years after his birth he still divides opinion…