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24th September 2014

Where Are The Women In Art?

Why are all the artists who are so prolific in art history male? Why has society only decided to do something about it now?
24th September 2014

Photo Of The Week

Do you have a photo that you want to share? Each week we will print a different photograph. No worries if you’re an amateur or professional, we want to see what you can capture.
23rd September 2014

Manchester’s Top Art Secrets

Each week we explore a new place in Manchester to find the city’s top art secrets. This week Holly Smith visited the Centre For Chinese Contemporary Art.
23rd September 2014

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Vincent Van Gogh

When I ask people about Vincent van Gogh, I generally get the reaction “you mean the one who did those sunflowers?” In fact, ask anyone about an artist and they could tell you which paintings they are famous for, but how much do you actually know about the person behind the canvas?
18th September 2014

What’s on

Your guide to all the upcoming art events in the city
22nd February 2014

SKREACH THE ARTS.

SKREACH THE ARTS is an online wonderland where I showcase all things fantastical and wonderful in the world of the arts.
22nd February 2014

Origami ‘How-to’:

How to make a Waterbomb!
22nd February 2014

Upcoming Live Art and performance in Spring 2014

Jasper Llewellyn fills us in on the up and coming live art calandar.
22nd February 2014

Festival of Imagination

Nancy Barnes hears Jeremy Deller, Mary Anne Hobbs and Dave Haslam examine the dark underbelly of the imagination.
22nd February 2014

‘Coral: Something Rich and Strange’ at the Manchester Museum

Bobbie Hook gives us a private tour of the Coral exhibition at the Manchester Museum. Most art history students would probably agree that we don’t get many ‘perks’ from the course… the compulsory trip to Florence/Paris/New York or another exotic escape no longer exists. But recently the second years were treated to what essentially was […]

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22nd February 2014

Crochet Coral Project

Alongside the ‘Coral: Something Rich and Strange’ exhibition (that I’ve written about here too, I’m a little keen), are a set of crochet workshops that in a way subsidise the installation of a crochet coral reef, as the objects made contribute to it. These workshops are part of an international community project unfussily called ‘The […]
10th February 2014

I swapped Facebook for knitting and won’t ever look back!

Arts Editor Abbie Roberts on the addictive procrastination alternative to social networking and its hidden associations with crime.
10th February 2014

Private Galleries

Arts Editor Matilda Roberts visits Manchester’s Artzu Gallery and the Manchester Craft and Design Centre to see what the city’s private galleries have to offer.
4th February 2014

Performance art is my ‘melancholy mistress’

Jasper Llewellyn interviews Clifford Owens.
4th February 2014

An Evening With Clifford Owens’ ‘Photographs With An Audience’

Jasper Llewellyn and Matilda Roberts take part in Clifford Owens’ Photographs With An Audience at the Cornerhouse…
3rd December 2013

Domestic Festival

Jasper Llewellyn attends live art festival Domestic…
27th November 2013

The Royal Opera House

Zoe Landau, tells us about her role as Student Ambassador for the venue and why she thinks there’s so much more to it than meets the eye.
27th November 2013

Noise and Signal

Jasper Llewellyn reviews Daksha Patel’s Noise and Signal.
25th November 2013

The “soft” arts

The Sunday Times recently announced that the government has planned to cut GCSE subjects such as P.E. and Drama, with many other “softer subjects” placed in the firing line, including many arts subjects. Jack Sheen tells us what he thinks…   For the remainder of this brief article, ‘arts subjects’ will be defined as those […]
25th November 2013

Giving Opera a Go: Peter Grimes

Long associated with being solely enjoyed by the upper classes and those with a taste for ‘the finer things in life’, opera has a reputation for being an exclusive art form appreciated only by people with knowledge of classical music and those ‘in the know’. Mattie Roberts and Jamie Bulman explore how much someone with […]