Hard though it is to credit, Manchester’s Castlefield Gallery is fast approaching its ruby anniversary. Such landmarks can often provide the pretext for cheap nostalgia, the reassuring equivalent of a clip show on BBC...
Read MoreIt’s hardly welcoming. A snide, on-screen solicitor is the only semblance of human contact we encounter during Obstructions, the latest virtual exhibition at Manchester’s Castlefield Gallery. His telling tale about a run-in with...
Read MoreIt all changed with the gramophone. Of course, there had been sheet music, staking claim to authorship, long before Emile Berliner’s refinement of Thomas Edison’s wax cylinders trapped performance in shellac, but his...
Read MoreA spin of the bottle away from the overspill revelry of Deansgate Locks in university freshers’ week, Castlefield Gallery takes one step back from the litter of drinks promotions and homesickness to afford a less frenetic...
Read MoreWitty, playful and exciting, Make Every Show Like It’s Your Last is Manchester Art Gallery’s major exhibition of work by conceptual artist Ryan Gander. Through it, the artist wanted, he says, “to explore my interest in stories,...
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