Exhibitions, Lecture

Art History Study Afternoon: Magic + Art

30 March 2017
Study Afternoon: Magic + Art (Whitworth Teaching Suite)

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

John Rylands Research Institute Annual Lecture 2017

18:15 - 19:30 30 March 2017
The Anglo-Saxons and the making of England The Institute's Annual Lecture for 2017 is to be given by Professor Michael Wood, Professor of Public History, University of Manchester.…

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…

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,…

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…

Whitworth Studies: ART X MAGIC - Lucy Stein and Dr Charlie F.B. Miller

17:30 - 21:00 30 March 2017
Whitworth Studies aims to encourage and support a wide range of research projects between the Whitworth and Art History and Visual Studies (AHVS), artists, other parts of the University…

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…

The Tabley House Collection

13:00 1 April - 13:00 29 October 2017
As a university of Manchester country house collection, The Tabley House Collection showcases a permanent exhibition of early British modern masters alongside interchanging displays…

Family Ties – The Adamah Papers exhibition

7 April - 25 May 2017
A new exhibition from the Black Cultural Archives exploring a collection of papers belonging to the Adamah Family - a Ghanaian family of Kings - which reflect on the family's daily…

EU Citizens in the Shadow of Brexit: A Panel with Manchester's Mayoral Candidate

13:00 - 14:30 9 April 2017
Topics for debate to include social issues such as hate crime, developing cohesion within the community, improving info points for EU citizens living in Greater Manchester and how Brexit…

Lucienne Day

14 April - 16 July 2017
We are delighted to be celebrating the centenary year of one of Britain’s most influential 20th century designers. Best-known for her textiles, Lucienne Day (1917 – 2010) is recognised…

The BP Annual Lecture: The future of global energy markets

17:30 - 20:00 24 April 2017
Few industries can claim to have a distinct and direct effect on every person and in every home. From prices at the petrol station to power in developing companies, energy is one industry…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Professor Judith Walkowitz: Feminism and Prostitution in the 1980s: A Tale of North and South

17:00 - 19:00 25 April 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2017 programme 'Precarity'. Organised in collaboration with History at the University of Manchester. Sponsored by Modern British History Research…

Hip Hop and the Fight for Educational Equality in America

17:00 - 18:30 25 April 2017
Education in post-civil rights America continues to be defined by racial, social class, and gender inequality. Serious debates about failing schools have been obscured both by "post-racial"…

EU economic sanctions from the public international law perspective

18:00 - 20:00 26 April 2017
Manchester International Law Centre is proud to welcome Professor Matthew Happold, who will deliver a public lecture on the subject: EU economic sanctions from the public international…

GDI Lecture Series: The Global Arms Trade and International Law: Prevention is Better than Cure

17:00 - 18:30 26 April 2017
The Global Arms Trade and International Law: Prevention is Better than Cure: Dr Shavana Musa (The University of Manchester). The event will be from 5-6.30pm in Theatre B of the Roscoe…

Joint MANCASS/Medieval Society Lecture: A. Breeze 'The Nordic Arthur and the Volcanic Winter of 536/7'

18:00 - 19:30 27 April 2017
Joint MANCASS/Medieval Society Lecture: A. Breeze 'The Nordic Arthur and the Volcanic Winter of 536/7'

TAPIR: Conservation in the highlands in Costa Rica

18:30 - 19:30 2 May 2017
Join us for a fascinating lecture on Tapirs being given by Esteban Brenes-Mora, the founder and director of Nai Conservation: a research group focused on mammals from the Highlands…

Inaugural Lecture of Prof. Constantinos Theodoropoulos

15:00 - 16:00 4 May 2017
The School of CEAS would like to invite you to attend the Inaugural Lecture of Prof. Constantinos Theodoropoulos, "Integrated systems approaches for the sustainable bioproduction of fuels and added-value chemicals"

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