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Imagining a better future: Sustainable art with Jessica El Mal

Imagining a better future: Sustainable art with Jessica El Mal

Artist and curator, Jessica El Mal talks about sustainability, collaboration and her curatorial work with A.MAL Projects
Why The Prestige is Nolan’s most definitive film

Why The Prestige is Nolan’s most definitive film

The Prestige may be the key to understanding Nolan’s filmmaking
Acid Maia: Absence & Absinthe

Acid Maia: Absence & Absinthe

Manchester-based creator Acid Maia sets the scene for the extensive and ‘genre-bending’ body of work in the cataclysmic places within our world where our concrete societies and the wild collide; the rural space that walks the line of two sublime forces that do battle every day. The contrast is present within the overgrown ivy on […]
Art in Mancunia: Georgia Charlton-Briggs

Art in Mancunia: Georgia Charlton-Briggs

Georgia Charlton-Briggs does not avoid tackling taboo subjects straight on; in her works she examines how women become entrapped in modern beauty standards which define attractiveness based on the state of being hairless.
The Yard: The New Creative Hotspot in Manchester

The Yard: The New Creative Hotspot in Manchester

The Yard is a new centre for creative individuals in Manchester, encouraging artists from all over the city to use the space to express their talent
K-pop in crisis: a controlling, corporate culture

K-pop in crisis: a controlling, corporate culture

Beneath a happy, energetic K-Pop exterior lies a draconian, corporate underworld

Fashion player of the week: Petra Collins

Don’t let her unfinished years at high school fool you into thinking Petra Collins doesn’t work

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An anthology of comics about 2017’s most unlikely superhero

Competition: Win Marika Hackman limited edition vinyl and signed postcard

Mancunion readers are in with a chance to win an exclusive vinyl edition of Marika Hackman’s new album, as well as a signed personalised postcard

When pop art met fashion

Following the recent opening of ‘Artist Rooms: Andy Warhol’ at The Whitworth Art Gallery, Deputy Fashion and Beauty Editor Sophie Soar ruminates upon Andy Warhol’s influence in fashion since the sixties

Art History Lessons with Lucy J

10 things you should know about Toulouse-Lautrec