Arts Archive
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 […]
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…
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.
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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 […]
25th November 2013
Turner Prize ’13: David Shrigley
Ever since it’s establishment in 1984, the Turner Prize has become possibly the most colloquial yet controversial award for the visual arts, having previously been won by Damien Hirst and Antony Gormley, as well as being drunkenly discussed on live television by Tracey Emin. In the run up to the Turner Prize being announced on […]
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 […]
18th November 2013
Turner Prize ‘13: Tino Seghal
Established in 1984, the Turner Prize is awarded each year to a contemporary artist under 50, living, working or born in Britain, who is judged to have put on the best exhibition of the last 12 months. Previous winners include Gilbert & George, Antony Gormley, Grayson Perry, Jeremy Deller and Damien Hirst. This year’s shortlist […]
18th November 2013
Polari Mission
Jez Dolan and Joe Richardson have developed a project to save Polari, an endangered language used in the gay community, which can be seen in their exhibition at the John Ryland’s Deansgate library. Ella Dix-Nagra catches up with Jez, one half of the project’s founders. What exactly are the origins of Polari? It’s a […]
18th November 2013
Cao Fei
Holly Smith visits the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Arts in Manchester’s Northen Quarter… A place with a population of over 1.35 billion people, the second largest country by land area, and the third most visited country in the world. China is a place where the children are the smartest in the world according to testing […]
14th November 2013
Turner Prize 2013: Yiadom-Boakye
In the run up to the Turner Prize being announced on December 2nd, The Mancunion Arts & Culture brings you introductions to the four 2013 nominees.
This week Matilda Roberts introduces Lynette Yiadom-Boakye…
14th November 2013
Origami how-to: Sombrero!
Step-by-step picture guide to making an origami sombrero by Arts Editor Abbie Roberts
14th November 2013
Society as the Self: Social Influences Over Creative Culture
Ever since I’ve come into contact with creative people, I’ve always been shuddered slightly at those who claim to ‘express themselves’. The idea of art being a self expressive tool for the artist is ultimately one of the Romantic period, where musicians, writers and artists saw their work going beyond its aristocratic social function and […]
12th November 2013
Double indemnity at The Cornerhouse
Inspired by the classic film noir of the same name, The Cornerhouse’s exhibition ‘Double Indemnity’ is dark and sometimes disturbing, but definitely worth a visit.