Author: Matthew Graham
Goldfrapp: Performer as Curator
Goldfrapp are one of those bands where substance meets style to an often mesmerising effect.
A Highland Romance
The first thing that strikes you about this intriguing exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery is the darkness of Gallery 6, its Farrow & Ball-painted dark purple walls contrasting with the brightness of the preceding permanent exhibition rooms.
Athelstan’s Dream
To Common, that bohemian watering hole and eatery in Manchester’s Northern Quarter – the Left Bank of the North – and an exhibition of photography by 27-year-old Robert George, currently on display in the Kestrel Suite.
Brian Clarke: Born Oldham 1953
There can’t be many people who know that the world’s foremost stained glass artist is from Oldham.
Art for Everyone?
There’s a good chance that sometime during the next week you will encounter something beautiful at a bus stop. That may be a fervent wish harboured by all of us as we wait for the number 7, but in this case it might just be true: Art Everywhere has finally arrived.
Art for All: Thomas Horsfall’s Gift to Manchester
Once upon a Victorian time, Manchester was a city of cotton mills.
Environmental Photographer of the Year Exhibition, Cumbria
If you want to see some moving, environmentally-conscious, high-quality photography, the Environmental Photographer of the Year 2013 exhibition is for you.
Intervention Talk at Islington Mill Studios, Salford
Ten minutes walk from Manchester city centre is Islington Mill Studios, a former cotton-spinning mill which has been rehabilitated as the ultimate bohemian art space, thanks to the not inconsiderable efforts of ex-Central St. Martin’s fashion student and Salfordian Bill Campbell.
After Phoenix
After the success of her first novel, I Have Waited, and You Have Come, a troubling account of the impact of rising sea levels on a northern English county, author Martine McDonagh (who, by the by, once managed legendary Manchester band James) has gone back in time to the England of early 1974 in After Phoenix, a heart-warming tale of family unity and the conquering of grief.
Michelangelo Drawing Blood, RNCM, Manchester
Of all the arts, contemporary dance is perhaps the most abstract and least understood.
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