How much do you actually know about the person behind the canvas?

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

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.

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?

Your guide to all the upcoming art events in the city

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

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

Bioshock: Infinite raises the question can games be art?

Arts Editor Harriet Hill-Payne suggests searches out the unusual, the bizarre and the eclectic for your Easter cultural fix

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

Three young curators, four emerging artists, and a little help from Cornerhouse

…but it’s not…

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

10 things you should know about Toulouse-Lautrec

The Portico Library serves up a slice of secret Manchester, and a good slice of cake too

10 things you should know about Vincent Van Gogh

‘The Art of Protest: MMUnion Edition’ exhibited student artwork at MMUnion

The Whitworth exhibits Hogarth’s 1735 series A Rake’s Progress against David Hockney’s 1965 interpretation of the work