Andy Warhol: Death, politics and selfies come to The Whitworth The Whitworth will draw on the Artist Rooms collection of international modern and contemporary art owned by National Galleries of Scotland and Tate to put together it's new exhibition - Artist Rooms: Andy...
If you haven’t seen Tibor Recih and Nico Vascellari’s exhibitions at Manchester’s Whitworth yet, time is quickly running out. Post-ward textile designer Tibor Reich’s exhibition runs until 28 August. The exhibition, honouring design heritage, evaluates the way in...
£100,000 funding to assist new commissions and exhibitions as part of UK-India year of culture Manchester City Galleries will receive £100,000 from Arts Council England to develop a series of new commissions, exhibitions and performances by Indian artists, known as...
This June, the Whitworth, Manchester’s gallery in the park, hosts a warped weekend of art, music and the unexpected beneath the trees. Programmed by 15-25 year olds from across Greater Manchester, the festival celebrates the installation of a major new sculpture in...
Manchester's The Whitworth is set to host Elizabeth Price Curates, an innovative exhibition of works by over 70 artists brought together by the Turner Prize winning artist. The exhibition, titled In A Dream You Saw A Way To Survive And You Were Full Of Joy, explores...
Visual arts meets Darts on Thursday May 12th when these two vastly contrasting worlds come together for one night only for an original and unexpected cultural fusion – D’Arts Festival - as part of the annual citywide and nocturnal arts extravaganza - Manchester After...
From 24 June 2016 the Whitworth will unveil a new public sculpture by internationally acclaimed British artist Anya Gallaccio in Whitworth Park. In only the second permanent public sculpture of her career the artist will reimagine in steel a tree removed from the park...
The Whitworth Art Gallery is launching a new exhibition, Art_Textiles, celebrating the unique relationship between fine art and the Whitworth’s internationally significant textiles collection. Exploring the ambivalent status of textiles as an art medium, the...
The Whitworth has been shortlisted for the UK’s most prestigious architecture prize, the RIBA Stirling Prize. The news comes following its ambitious £15 million redevelopment of the 126 year-old Whitworth before reopening on 14 February, since when over 230,000 have...
Manchester’s newly reopened The Whitworth has announced its next major exhibition is set to be the first UK show from the renowned M+ Sigg Collection. The exhibition, Four Decades of Chinese Art, will bring together 80 significant works from leading contemporary...
Manchester’s The Whitworth and Dunham Massey’s Georgian Country House have been announced as two of the six museums shortlisted for the 2015 Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year. The Museum of the Year annually surveys museums and galleries across the UK, awarding...
Manchester International Festival, the world's first festival of original, new work and special events, has announced its programme for 2015. The event, which runs from Thursday 2nd July to Sunday 19th July has been taking place biennially since being launched in 2007...
Sunday 15th February: The Whitworth - Manchester Camerata. The Whitworth's reopening celebrations close with the premiere of Whitworth Letters, composed by Laura Bowler, Manchester Camerata's Composer-in-Residence 2013-2014. The programme also includes Peter...