Megan Powell appearing at Thursday Late at Manchester Museum Manchester Museum is set to host artist Megan Powell for a Thursday Late celebrating the culmination of her two-year-long Arts Council England funded project, After The Bees. The evening will include two screenings of Powell’s feature-length film, A Fable For Tomorrow, a surrealist documentation which imagines…
Engaging visitors with contemporary issues at Manchester Museum. Manchester Museum has acquired a refugee’s life jacket, which is now on display in the entrance to the museum. In doing so, Manchester Museum is seeking to engage visitors with one of the major issues of our time, migration, which has been cited as a major factor…
Home in the City, Bombay 1976 – Mumbai 2016 Sooni Taraporevala’s first UK solo exhibition has launched at The Whitworth in partnership with Sunaparanta, Goa Centre for the Arts. The photographer, screenwriter and filmmaker’s exhibit forms a part of the 2017 programme of events for New North and South a new major contemporary art network…
19th century life science teaching objects on public display for the first time at Manchester Museum. The private collection of prolific art collector George Loudon is set to go on public display for the first time at Manchester Museum as a part of the museum’s Object Lessons exhibition. The display will feature his collection of 19th…
Major donation moves plans for permanent South Asia gallery a step closer A major gift by Shalni and Simon Arora through the Savannah Wisdom Foundation and B&M Retail has given a significant boost to the fundraising effort for a new permanent South Asia Gallery, which will be the first in the country to present the deep history…
Solo exhibition of new work by artist and musician John Hyatt Home is set to host a major solo exhibition of new work by John Hyatt, the artist, music, author, scientist, explorer and one third of art rock band The Three Johns. Running from Saturday 4 February until Wednesday 29 March, the showing will look…
Celebrate the big and small things that make our world wonderful Celebrating the values that bring us together, rather than those that set us apart, Manchester Museum (part of the University of Manchester) is partnering with Common Cause Foundation which published research earlier this year on what those of us living in the north west…
A new initiative exploring what the people in Greater Manchester value has launched at Manchester Museum. Celebrating the values that bring us together, rather than those that set us apart, the museum is partnering with Common Cause Foundation which published research earlier this year on what those of us living in the north west value….
Manchester Art Gallery is set to launch its new exhibition, Wynford Dewhurst: Manchester’s Monet, the first retrospective of the English impressionist painter and art theorist since his death in 1941. The exhibition, which launches on 9 December 2016, running until 23 April 2017, will feature many of the controversial artist’s works on public display for the first…
‘If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left.’ Responding to these unsettling words attributed to Albert Einstein, the latest exhibition at Manchester Museum (part of the University of Manchester) After the Bees, presents a series of artworks exploring a poignant narrative of loss….
