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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

Does contemporary art have a bad reputation?

What does it take to be a contemporary artist? Liv Clarke investigates the modern art scene

Upcoming at HOME: La Movida

“If you lived in the 80s and remember it, then you didn’t live it.”

Review: Deanna Petherbridge at the Whitworth

More than thirty years after her residency, The Whitworth showcases work from Petherbridge’s 45 year career

Instagram: The pros and cons

A celebration that anyone can be an artist, or just another reminder of the mediocrity of today’s society? Georgia Welch takes a look at the best and worst of Instagram

Never Going Underground: The Fight for LGBT+ Rights

The People’s History Museum opens a new, politically-motivated exhibition this month

John Hyatt: Rock Art

John Hyatt, musician and MMU lecturer, puts on a punk inspired exhibition at HOME

David Hockney designs special edition logo for The Sun newspaper

Is David Hockney ‘trolling’ the tabloid newspaper with his latest work of art? Georgia Welch takes a look

Whitworth director Maria Balshaw becomes first female director of Tate

Maria Balshaw steps into her new role as the first female director of the Tate

New Year New Manchester

Manchester’s most exciting arts and culture events in 2017

Review: Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers

Manchester Art Gallery displays a fascinating insight into international views of British life

A guide to art over the Christmas break

Laura Joyce gives the breakdown to what’s on nationwide this Christmas

Artist Rooms: Andy Warhol at the Whitworth

Arguably the most exciting exhibition of the year comes to the University of Manchester’s Whitworth — Georgia Welch takes a look

Castlefield Gallery: Miniature World

The Castlefield Gallery hosts an exhibition of “the incomprehensibly minute to the unimaginably massive” in Miniature World