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ArtBox: Interview with artist Will Da Costa

We catch up with contributing artist Will Da Costa, who will be donating his playful illustrations to the event

Review: HumansBeingDigital

The Lowry’s latest exhibition creates an uncanny intersection between the human and the digital realm

Art x Fashion

From Da Vinci to Van Gogh, in the modern age, ghosts of art’s past have been resurrected in fashion to the expense of creativity’s contemporary characters

Review: Airport ’87

Central Library’s select but charming collection of photographs captures the vibrant atmosphere of Manchester Airport thirty years ago

Remembering Partition with New North South: Neha Choksi

Manchester Art Gallery delves deep through the medium of South Asian film with Neha Choksi

Review: The Manchester Contemporary 2017

Klaudia Jedyka visits The Manchester Contemporary and brings us her stand out pieces

Wise Words from the Whitworth: Paul Smith

The Whitworth welcomes renowned British designer Paul Smith for an exclusive insight into his early formative career, and now global brand

To be a critic: David Jenkins

In appreciation of a magazine and an art form

Review: Art on Paper

Three studio spaces come together to challenge the assumed role and medium of paper

Travel story: Flamenco in Andalusia, Spain

Sophia Macpherson recounts how she fell in love with Spain’s flamenco dance

Looking beyond the façade: Cornelia Parker’s ‘Verso’

The Whitworth welcomes back Cornelia Parker, in an installation which looks behind the boundaries of artistic discourse

Manchester International Festival enjoys record-breaking success

Biennial festival brings more money into local economy than ever before

Dancing in Damascus: an evening with Miriam Cooke

Renowned author and Professor of Arab Cultures at Duke University spoke about the importance of art in a revolution

Review: Object Lessons

Manchester Museum celebrates art and science through its new collection of curiosities

Cornerhouse cinema transformed into amateur art gallery

Georgia Welch takes a look at Cornerhouse cinema’s new and unusual link with homelessness

Andrew McDonald is coming to Castlefield Gallery

Manchester-based artist Andrew McDonald brings his existing works to his home city

A summer of art in Manchester

With summer on the way find out what Manchester’s galleries have got in store

Art in the Northern Quarter

Liv Clarke explores the creative world of Manchester’s Northern Quarter

Review: Sooni Taraporevala at the Whitworth

The Whitworth Art Gallery presents Sooni Taraporevala’s first solo UK exhibition

The ‘Before I Die’ blackboard: Iterations and implications

Elliott Mills illustrates how the ‘Before I Die’ blackboard, as well as other everyday features of Oxford Road, is a symbol for the cycle of life and death