Welcome to Manchester Confidential

Reset Password

Arts

Big Art From West Africa To Hit Manchester

The Manchester Gallery Closes: What Will Take Its Place?

Big Art From West Africa To Hit Manchester1 June to 16 September 2012 - Manchester City Galleries and Whitworth Art Gallery

The Manchester Gallery Closes: What Will Take Its Place?Jonathan Schofield suggests Chetham's School Of Music buildings as a new Museum of Manchester

Clarion Club Gets Back On Its BikeFamily Cycling Tours, Newspapers And Much More At The Working Class Movement Library

CUBE Gallery: Manchester Riots And MoreThe 'CUBEOpen' Starts Off The Year - We Ask What Part Of It Means

Tom Benn: Explosive New Manchester NovelistNeil Sowerby says move over Scandi-writers, here's Manchester-noir

This Was Us: 1750 Map And Picture Of The CityManchester Archive Treasures And Manchester Histories Festival Unite

Exclusive: A brand new BanksyIs it a bird? Is it a plane? Yes, to the last one
From Liverpool Confidential.

Too Late!

Win Dinner, Bed And Breakfast And The Fall Tickets For TwoThe Commercial Hotel, Chester, offers an outstanding prize for Monday 28 November

Irish Eye: Colm HenryKaren Regn looks at U2 for us lot

A Taste of Shelagh - The Story of a Girl from SalfordCP Lee on a girl from nowhere who made a difference

This’n’That: An Artistic Curry MovementEmma Nuttall finds the Northern Quarter walls are talking

Political Posters: Get The MessagePaul Berentzen thinks we should all take a look: it'd be good for democracy

Buy Art Fair Is BackKaren Regn takes a wander around Quay House in Spinningfields

Manchester And Salford IllustratedNew exhibition in support of Wood Street Mission pictures the city

Alan Turing and MorphogenesisManchester Literature Festival celebrates Litmus with Comma Press

CervantesInstituto Cervantes celebrates the Manchester Literature Festival

Who Is This Mystery Man?Hilton Street Mosaic Mind-Bending Tile Phenomena

Free Manchester Literary Tours This WeekJonathan Schofield leads HSBC Premier walks around Manchester's way with words

Asia Triennial 1 Oct – 27 Nov 2011: More HighlightsA Big Ball Of Wool And Other Stories

Ford Madox Brown: The Autumn Art BlockbusterJonathan Schofield loves the people and the stories in the pictures on Mosley Street

Dark Matters: Tricks Of The Eye At The WhitworthOne Of The Last Whitworth Art Gallery Exhibitions Promises To Be A Cracker

The Manchester Contemporary – 28 to 30 OctoberConnect with leading UK artists, galleries and collectors over four days in Spinningfields

Buy Art Fair returns to Spinningfields from 28-30 OctoberBrowse and buy original, affordable works from over 300 artists

Spanish Lessons At Instituto Cervantes de MánchesterThea Euryphaessa goes back to school and confronts her biggest fear – foreign languages

Irwell Sculpture Trail Re-launchedPaul Berentzen describes how the largest public art scheme is to go digital

7 Metre Piece Of Twin Towers Comes To Quays9/11 Exhibits At IWMN

Hungry, The Stars And Everything By Emma Jane UnsworthJonathan Payne dines on a proper meal of a debut from a Manchester writer

Manchester Cathedral ToursYou'd visit York Minster so why not Manchester's exquisite cathedral?

RHS Flower Extravaganza ReviewedSamantha Grimes skips amongst the petals and mad furniture at Tatton Park

First look: Museum of LiverpoolThe largest newly-built national museum in Britain for more than a century. Opening party pictures and many pleasant surprises

MIF: How Was It For You?Jonathan Schofield looks back in three chapters at The Good, The Bad and the Utterly

Confidential Readers Visit The Whitworth Art GalleryJonathan Schofield and a night with the Influence Machine

Life And Death Of Marina Abramovic: MIF 2011Mark Garner discovers an amazing performance but not - for him - by MIF

Infinite Freedom Exercise Reviewed: MIF 2011Sophia Aiello appreciates Gerrard's free MIF feast for the eyes

SOME FREE International Festival EventsDavid McCourt finds a selection of gratis gratifications in MIFs-ville

Peeps, Ancoats, Dubowitz And Good ArtJonathan Schofield goes eye to eye with holes

The Good, The Standard And The Ugly: The ModernistJonathan Schofield reads the new architecture, art and everything magazine for the North

Running Into Myself By Thea Euryphaessa ReviewedNicola Mostyn on an inspirational book from a Manchester writer

The Good, The Standard And The Ugly: Arkwright HouseJonathan Schofield on a handsome, but sinister, beast in Parsonage Gardens

Charles Dickens In ManchesterJonathan Schofield explores the novelist’s city connections as the Library Theatre delivers a production of Hard Times

Manchester Book Market 17/18 June - this weekendLiterature in all its magnificent forms lands in St Ann’s Square

Sleuth, Paul Phillips And The IABFNew Anthony Burgess material found in Manchester's independent art foundation

What’s on at the Chinese Arts CentreCultural exhibitions and chances to get involved

Take That and Kraak addictionHeather Price examines a new exhibition

The Good, The Standard and The Ugly: a fenceJonathan Schofield and the tyranny of the temporary fence

Baghdad Car, IWMNCatherine May comes face to face with a suicide bomber's work

Strangeways: Stephanie de LengAs the ITV documentary continues, Manchester's prison gets still life

Jonathan Schofield at the People's History MuseumFree Trade, Peterloo and Friedrich Engels: big Manc moments with a laugh or two included

Chorlton Festival returnsThe 2011 Chorlton Arts Festival gets support from Community and Arts radio station

Warhol & Diva Exhibition at The LowryLiza Minelli, Marilyn Monroe, Mick Jagger, Debbie Harry, Pia Zadora, Jane Fonda and the artist himself in drag

Future Everything 2011 – highlightsMay 11-14, the best of the digital extravaganza

Manchester Museum unveils new galleryRevamped Living Worlds gallery opens

Victoria Baths brings Jaws to lifeThe Curiously Cinnema tour comes to Manchester

SpiceWorld at Leeds Museum reviewPaul Clarke finds merchandise and memories at a local shrine to Girl Power

BORN AFTER 1924 previewThe Castlefield Gallery joins the Merzman celebrations

Symphony in greyJonathan Schofield tones down and explains Confidential’s precipitation policy

Mary Kelly previewThe Whitworth Art Gallery's spring blockbuster

Upcoming events at the Engine HousePoets, publishers and two Nicholas Royles host events.

Kurt Schwitters work to be celebrated at CUBECity to host exhibitions, performances and public events in celebration

What’s on at RNCMTwo outstanding pianists and a veteran harpsichordist to perform

Imperial War Museum PreviewWar reporting, overseas evacuees and the remains of a Baghdad car on show

Dave Haslam and Frank Cottrell Boyce in conversationTwo North West writers join force at the Royal Exchange Theatre

2011 in Manchester museums and galleriesCatherine May looks ahead to Anish Kapoor and other shows

Manchester Chinese Arts Centre does it firstUK’s first solely Chinese contemporary art auction here in the city

Si Scott gets lyricalCelebrated illustrator and Forever Manchester join voices to a Manchester soundtrack

Cecilia Bartoli interviewJonathan Schofield chats to the world famous mezzo-soprano before her Bridgewater Hall castrato performance

BlankWeekend is hereSamantha Grimes on an exciting art invasion in the city

Getting crafty in SpinningfieldsThe Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair bring s160 designers on October 22-24.

Iconic album artwork on display at Buy Art FairLondon Calling artists added to line-up

Jaguar design secrets revealed at Buy Art FairDiscover the inspiration behind a modern motoring classic

Howard Jacobson comes to townOur new fave venue starts with a bang – but book now

Manchester Literature Festival summed upTop authors, the Poet Laureate, and the Confidential editor lead the celebrations

Howard Jacobson, Man Booker MancLucy Tomlinson, The Finkler Question, and a recent good evening at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation

Audioboo: Haslam and FranzenDave Haslam talks to Jonathan Schofield about his Sunday event at the Whitworth with ‘literary genius’ Jonathan Franzen

Tracey Emin coming to Manchester in OctoberControversial artist teams up with The Manchester Contemporary

The Land Between Us, Whitworth Art GalleryVia Audioboo: Jonathan Schofield talks to Whitworth curator Mary Griffiths about the new exhibition

Manchester, Bolivia: the oddest of namesakesJonathan Schofield reviews a Manchester Museum exhibition - AA Gill style - and gets lost in the rainforest

Rear view mirror: The cat and the bird......and a tale of domestic violence. Neighbour city taxi driver Tony Schumacher observes life on the streets after dark