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Review: Wit

Wit at the Royal Exchange Theatre, featuring Julie Hesmondhalgh, is an intensely emotional but also sharply funny story of a dying academic’s attempts to come to terms with her mortality
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Student to set fire to loan in capitalism protest

In an attempt to highlight the debt that students are getting into, one art student plans a controversial project
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Frida Kahlo and the rebel commodity

Does consumer capitalism and modern feminism appropriate its icons wrongly? Madeleine Jones casts a critical eye over the use of Frida Kahlo merely as a fashionable image
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Review: Love Takes Guts

Ola Youssef reviews Fuel Café’s charity poetry event, Love Takes Guts, in aid of organ donation
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Reassembling the self: the art of schizophrenia

Schizophrenia has been described as one of the most misunderstood disorders. In ‘Reassembling the Self’, Susan Aldworth looks to diminish the stigma that schizophrenia has and to depict perceptions and experiences of it through art
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What You Didn’t Know About Andy Warhol

There is much more to Andy Warhol than his famous Campbell’s Soup Cans and Marilyn Monroe. The Mancunion delves beneath the canvases to find out more about this quirky man.
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What’s on?

Your guide to what is happening in the city this month.
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Pablo Picasso

How much do you actually know about the person behind the canvas?
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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?
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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?
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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.
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What’s on

Your guide to all the upcoming art events in the city
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Venue Guide: Off the Beaten Track

Perhaps not so well known as Manchester’s larger institutions, these venues make a vibrant, intelligent and exciting contribution to the art scene of the city
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Society Spotlight: Manchester University Comic Collective

Manchester University Comic Collective provide lessons and workshops to teach people how to draw and create comics, working towards producing a collaborative anthology of their work at the end of the year
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Review – Bioshock: Infinite

Bioshock: Infinite raises the question can games be art?
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There’s no place like Soane

Arts Editor Harriet Hill-Payne suggests searches out the unusual, the bizarre and the eclectic for your Easter cultural fix
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‘Four’ at Cornerhouse: The Curation

Sarah Jones gains a rare insight into the curational process of ‘Four’ at Cornerhouse
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Four at Cornerhouse

Three young curators, four emerging artists, and a little help from Cornerhouse
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Fashion could be called art…

…but it’s not…
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Review: ‘I’ – The Sleep Collection

Toby Parker and Lucy Johnson are ‘blissfully roused’ from their slumbers by Rubin-Mayhew’s sleeping beauties
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