Exhibitions, Literature Live

ARTIST ROOMS: Andy Warhol

19 November 2016 - 16 April 2017
ARTIST ROOMS: Andy Warhol shows the sharp critical opinions of an artist known to many primarily as art salesman, purveyor of product and celebrant of capitalism. Supported by Arts…

Capturing Science: Images Past and Present

22 September 2016 - 29 January 2017
A picture is worth a thousand words and captures a moment in time. Manchester is European City of Science throughout 2016 and to celebrate this, we are sharing a selection of our science…

Deanna Petherbridge

2 December 2016 - 4 June 2017
A solo show of pen and ink drawings from across a 45-year career. Since the 1960s, Deanna Petherbridge has pioneered critical thinking on drawing and its place in art and architecture.…

Here Is My Face: Autobiographical Portraits on HIV

18:00 2 - 15:00 4 December 2016
Anthropology, Media and Performance (AMP) PhD student Angelica Cabezas is presenting one of the practical components of her doctoral work at the Drama and Anthropology Subject Areas,…

Idris Khan

14 October 2016 - 13 March 2017
British contemporary artist Idris Khan's new solo exhibition. Idris Khan draws inspiration from the history of art, music, philosophy and theology, laying and manipulating images and…

Imagining Medicine

14 October - 22 December 2016
Hammers, vacuum cleaners and duck beaks: see how 16th and 17th century surgical procedures have been reimagined through the photography of Dr Sian Bonnell. Bonnell's photographs take…

Marcantonio Raimondi and Raphael

30 September 2016 - 23 April 2017
This exhibition features the work of one of the radical originators and innovators of the European tradition of printmaking, Marcantonio Raimondi (c. 1480-c. 1534). Marcantonio was…

NEW SCULPTURE

22 October 2016 - 12 June 2017
This exhibition presents a dynamic selection of contemporary sculpture recently acquired by the Whitworth. Spanning the last 25 years, the exhibition offers an eclectic journey through…

Off Beat: Jeff Nuttall and the International Underground

8 September 2016 - 5 March 2017
Painter, poet, actor and sculptor, a man once described as "the only all-round genius most of us are likely to meet," Jeff Nuttall was one of the few people in the early 1960s to publish…

Healing Histories: An Exhibition of Medical Marvels and Curative Curiosities

10:00 - 15:00 12 December 2016
Healing Histories is a pop-up exhibition by MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies students exploring the curious past of health and medicine, celebrating discoveries, exploring the unappreciated,…

The Caroline Chisholm Reading

18:30 - 20:00 14 December 2016
This event honours the memory of writer Caroline Chisholm (MA Creative Writing, 2013), who was a valued member of the CNW community. It will feature a reading from the best dissertation…

Revolutionary Textiles 1910-1939

2 January - 23 April 2017
In the early decades of the 20th century textile design took off in new directions throughout the Western world. Invigorated by experimental techniques, art styles such as Fauvism,…

Whitworth Young Contemporaries: And Now We Are Plastic

27 January - 2 April 2017
As technology helps us to constantly evolve, the boundaries between our physical and digital spaces are blending, yet our ability to adapt and change remains visible in our art, marking…

Children's Lives in Wartime Japan

1 February - 31 March 2017
This exhibition displays 50 entries from picture diaries made by Japanese primary school children in 1944-1945. It gives a vivid insight into the school lives of Japanese children…

World Cancer Day

11:00 - 14:00 3 February 2017
World Cancer Day Friday 3rd February 2017 University Place, Ground Floor Drum area. Check out our fight against cancer Cancer is one of the University’s five research beacons and…

Literature Live: Vona Groarke and Katherine Angel

19:30 - 21:00 6 February 2017
Vona Groarke has published seven collections of poetry, most recently, Selected Poems (Gallery Press, 2016). Current editor of Poetry Ireland Review and a selector for the Poetry Book…

Jeanette Winterson “In Conversation” with Val McDermid

19:30 - 21:00 20 February 2017
Val McDermid is one of the biggest names in crime writing. Her novels have been translated into 30 languages, sold over 10 million copies worldwide. Val has created many notable characters…

John McAuliffe “In Conversation” with Mohsin Hamid

19:00 - 20:30 27 February 2017
Manchester Literature Festival presents an In Conversation with award-winning author Mohsin Hamid. Born and raised in Lahore, Hamid currently divides his time between Pakistan, London…

Sooni Taraporevala: Home in the City, Bombay 1976-Mumbai 2016

4 March 2017 - 1 January 2018
The first UK solo exhibition of photographer Sooni Taraporevala. Photographer, screenwriter, filmmaker Sooni Taraporevala will present a series of black and white photographs depicting…

Literature Live: Beth Underdown and Kate Hamer

19:30 - 21:00 6 March 2017
Beth Underdown was born in Rochdale in 1987. Her debut novel, The Witchfinder's Sister, is based on the witch-hunts orchestrated by Matthew Hopkins in seventeenth century Essex, and…

Toils of Labour Museum of Medicine and Health exhibition for International Women's Day

12:30 - 17:00 8 March 2017
The Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health will be marking International Women's Day with an afternoon of activities in Roscoe Building. See bit.ly/IWD_FBMH for more information. …

Jeanette Winterson "In Conversation" with Neil Jordan

19:00 - 20:30 13 March 2017
Neil Jordan was born in 1950 in Sligo. His first book of stories, Night in Tunisia, won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979, and his subsequent critically acclaimed novels include The…

Barbara Brown

17 March 2017 - 15 March 2018
Barbara Brown was the golden girl of Heal Fabrics in the 1960s and early 1970s. Talent-spotted as a student, her designs for furnishing fabrics are some of the most striking and unusual…

Kaye Mitchell "In Conversation" with George Saunders

18:30 - 20:00 17 March 2017
Waterstones Deansgate, in conjunction with The University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing, is delighted to host an evening with the acclaimed American short story writer, George…

John Akomfrah

24 March - 23 July 2017
John Akomfrah's acclaimed video installation Vertigo Sea. Vertigo Sea, a three-screen film, first seen at the 56th Venice Biennale as part of Okwui Enwezor's All the World's Futures…

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