The Whitworth

Aisha Khalid: Larger Than Life

6 October 2012 - 27 January 2013
EXHIBITION Aisha Khalid: Larger Than Life. Exhibition runs until 27 January 2013. Lahore-based Aisha Khalid is one of Pakistan’s leading contemporary artists. She is part of a generation…

Building on Things: images of ruin and renewal

6 October 2012 - 6 January 2013
No encounter or engagement with ruins is ever just about the past. Ruins are vehicles for time travel in the imagination. A ruined building is a reminder to the viewer of the passage…

Hockney to Hogarth: A Rake’s Progress

6 October 2012 - 27 January 2013
EXHIBITION Hockney to Hogarth: A Rake’s Progress. Exhibition runs until 3 February 2013. The Whitworth has been presented with David Hockney’s entire print series A Rake’s Progress…

Hockney to Hogarth: A Rake’s Progress | Music

14:00 - 15:00 6 October 2012
A Rake’s Progress: Music. Join us at Whitworth Art Gallery for a performance of extracts from Igor Stravinsky’s wonderful opera, The Rake’s Progress by the Royal Northern College of Music.

Jane and Louise Wilson

6 October 2012 - 27 January 2013
EXHIBITION Jane and Louise Wilson. Exhibition runs until 27 January 2013. Bringing together recent works by the acclaimed British artists Jane and Louise Wilson, this exhibition…

Close Up with Michael Chabon

19:30 7 October 2012
Close Up with Michael Chabon : Telegraph Avenue Sunday 7 October, 7.30pm at Whitworth Art Gallery Tickets: £8/£6 concessions (Please note booking charges may apply for this event).…

Grand Day Out for Grandparents

13:30 - 15:30 7 October 2012
Free for children of all ages, their families and carers. Are the grandchildren brimming with energy and you fancy having some fun with them? Bring the whole family and make an afternoon…

Manchester Literature Festival at the Whitworth

7 - 19 October 2012
Manchester Literature Festival at the Whitworth. Dates: 7, 10, 12, 13, 14 & 19 October 2012. Manchester Literature Festival events showcasing work by established and emerging authors,…

Literature Live: Richard Ford (Manchester Literature Festival)

18:30 - 21:30 12 October 2012
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Ford discusses his eagerly awaited new novel Canada. A visionary novel of vast landscapes, complex identities and fragile humanity, Canada tells…

After Hours: Bunford & Kashiwagi...

19:30 - 22:30 13 October 2012
Bunford & Kashiwagi... In the mix & friends. FREE. Musician, Huw Bunford (Super Furry Animals) and artist, Naomi Kashiwagi perform new soundscapes that tune into and crank up the volume…

Tony White, Dicky Star and the Garden Rule

20:00 13 October 2012
Tony White, Dicky Star and the Garden Rule. Saturday 13 October, 8pm. Free. Dicky Star and the Garden Rule follows a young couple through the turbulent days at the end of April 1986…

Comic Creations

13:30 - 15:30 14 October 2012
Free for children of all ages, their families and carers. Love comics and want to learn how to draw cartoons? Join artists and learn illustration techniques, make your own comics and create floor art characters.

Hockney to Hogarth: A Rake’s Progress | Poetry

14:00 - 16:00 14 October 2012
A Rake’s Progress: Poetry Poet Kei Miller performs newly commissioned work responding to Hockney to Hogarth: A Rake’s Progress.

Big Draw Luminosity

13:30 20 - 03:30 21 October 2012
Free for children of all ages, their families and carers (Saturday 20 & Sunday 21 October, 1.30 – 3.30pm) World famous artists like Hockney do it, and now so can you! Join our Big Draw…

Family event | Writers' Skills

13:00 30 October - 15:00 2 November 2012
SCHOOL HOLIDAYS For children of all ages, their families and carers: Writers' Skills On: Tuesday 30 October, Wednesday 31 October, Thursday 1 October & Friday 2 November. All session…

Andrew Graham Dixon Lecture

17:30 - 23:30 8 November 2012
Andrew Graham Dixon Lecture. Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane. Thursday 8 November, Tickets £12.50. Andrew Graham Dixon leading art critic, journalist, TV presenter and novelist,…

Cuillin Sound in concert

14:30 - 16:30 10 November 2012
Cuillin Sound in concert. Saturday 10 November. Part 1: 2.30 – 3.15pm. Part 2: 3.45 – 4.30pm. Free, no need to book. An afternoon of musical and visual inspirations in the company…

Weekend Course: Textiles as Contemporary Art

11:00 10 - 16:00 11 November 2012
Serious About Art: Weekend Courses Textiles as Contemporary Art. Saturday 10 & Sunday 11 November. 11am – 4pm, £35. Join our textile curator to investigate the work of Aisha Khalid…

Apocalyse Now: thinking about ruins and radiation

14:00 - 17:00 28 November 2012
A half-day seminar looking at artistic and scientific responses to industrial and other modern ruins, with Jane and Louise Wilson, Paul Dobraszczyk (University of Manchester), Tim Edensor…

Movie Nights

18:00 - 20:30 30 November 2012
Movie Nights. On Friday: 30 November. Offering an insight into what Britain was like in the early 60s, at the time when David Hockney left the UK behind and arrived in the US. …

Progress Yourself: Reimagining A Rake’s Progress

13:00 - 16:00 1 December 2012
Progress Yourself: Reimagining A Rake’s Progress. Saturday 1 December. 1 – 4pm, free, please book. The likes of David Hockney and Grayson Perry have all done it, now it’s your…

After Hours: Hockney’s New York Loft Party

19:30 - 22:30 15 December 2012
After Hours: Hockney’s New York Loft Party. Saturday 15 December. 7.30 – 10.30pm, free. Inspired by our Hockney to Hogarth exhibition, join us for an evening of music, poetry…

John Piper: The Mountains of Wales

19 January - 7 April 2013
John Piper: The Mountains of Wales. 19 January – 7 April. John Piper began to draw and paint the landscape of North Wales in the middle of the Second World War. He was sent to Snowdonia…

Weekend Course: Anglo-American Art & The Sixties

11:00 19 - 16:00 20 January 2013
Serious About Art: Weekend Courses. Anglo-American Art & The Sixties. Saturday 19 & Sunday 20 January. 11am – 4pm, £35. Use our Hockney to Hogarth exhibition as a starting point…

Curator’s Tour: John Piper

14:00 26 January 2013
Curator’s Tour: John Piper Saturday 26 January, 2pm, free.

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