Exhibitions, Lecture

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…

Beyond Borders

20 May 2017 - 3 June 2018
Beyond Borders, explores South Asian textiles bringing together four artists working on issues around post-colonial identity, ruptured spaces, authenticity, displacement and belonging.…

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…

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…

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…

Public Lecture: Ian Alan Paul: The Conditions of Possibility: Democracy, Security, and Futurity in Post-Coup Cairo

14:00 - 16:00 9 June 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's 2016/17 Semester 2 programme on Precarity. Ian Alan Paul is a transdisciplinary artist, theorist, and curator. His practice encompasses experimental…

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…

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…

Cornelia Parker: Verso

16 June - 5 November 2017
Cornelia Parker: Verso 16 June - 5 November 2017 Cornelia Parker has always been attracted to the backs and undersides of things. While the front presents a conscious and recognisable…

Cozens and Cozens

16 June 2017 - 24 June 2018
Father and son, Alexander and John Robert Cozens, were influential watercolour painters of the 18th century. Alexander was a drawing master who dedicated his career to teaching young…

Home Is…

12:00 19 - 12:00 23 June 2017
What does it mean to be “home”? An exhibition with an interactive and homely layout that discusses the ideas of what it means to be at home and to lose such security, as well as moving…

Do Standards in Global Value Chains Support or Undermine the Sustainable Development Goals? with Professor Raphael Kaplinsky

16:00 - 17:30 20 June 2017
Do Standards in Global Value Chains Support or Undermine the Sustainable Development Goals? with Professor Raphael Kaplinsky Standards matter to global trade. But they can play a dual…

Are the Rising Powers Really Rising?

17:00 - 18:30 21 June 2017
Are the Rising Powers Really Rising? with Lord Jim O'Neill Lord Jim O'Neill, former Goldman Sachs Chief Economist and former Treasury Minister, will discuss whether the "rising powers"…

Taking Interdependency Seriously: Brexit and the Rising Powers

14:00 - 15:30 23 June 2017
Taking Interdependency Seriously: Brexit and the Rising Powers with Professor Alan Winters Post-Brexit Britain will be an outward looking champion of the global system, we are told.…

Raqib Shaw

24 June - 1 November 2017
Contemporary artist Raqib Shaw will have a solo exhibition at the Whitworth that will examine real and imagined spaces between the East and West. Co-curated by Diana Campbell Betancourt,…

No End to Enderby

30 June - 17 September 2017
No End to Enderby Graham Eatough and Stephen Sutcliffe To mark the 100th birthday of Manchester-born Anthony Burgess this year, artist Stephen Sutcliffe and theatre director Graham…

ToGather - Susan Hefuna

30 June - 16 July 2017
ToGather - Susan Hefuna: An exhibition and performance. A Manchester International Festival, world premiere. Featuring a major public performance and a wide-ranging exhibition, Susan…

Dr Howard Booth (Manchester), Burgess at Manchester

17:00 - 18:30 3 July 2017
As part of the Anthony Burgess Centenary Conference, SALC will host a lecture by Dr Howard Booth (EAC) on Burgess’s time at Manchester on Monday, July 3rd at 5pm in the Arts Lecture…

The Sir Martin Wood Prize Lecture

14:00 - 16:00 6 July 2017
Professor Akihito Ishizaki from the Institute for Molecular Science, Japan will be giving a prize lecture on the Theory of Real-time Quantum Dissipative Dynamics and its Application…

Stroke/Ceramics: a research conversation and exhibition

18:00 - 20:00 24 July 2017
This event brings together University of Manchester researchers from the Faculty of Medicine, the Institute for Cultural Practices, and the Whitworth Art Gallery in conversation with…

Beyond Dementia

28 July 2017 - 7 January 2018
Beyond Dementia Supporting active citizenship in those living with dementia 28 July – 7 January 2018 Beyond Dementia is a Collection Centre exhibition that explores the lived experience…

Memories of Partition

15 August 2017 - 31 January 2018
Find out about the experiences and legacies of the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 through the memories of members of Manchester’s South Asian communities. The partition of…

Professor Bruno Latour: Does our conception and practice of the modern European ‘body politic’ need a new body when confronted by the challenges posed by our new climatic regime?

09:30 - 11:00 1 September 2017
As part of his appointment as Simon and Hallsworth Visiting Professor 2017/18 Bruno Latour will be giving a public lecture at the University of Manchester at 9.30am on 1 September 2017…

Celebrating Ganesha

2 September 2017 - 8 January 2018
Manchester Museum is delighted to host the beautiful stone sculpture of Ganesha. Celebrating Ganesha is touring across several venues around the UK as part of the British Museum’s Partnership…

Lovell Lecture: Pulsars: Lighthouses of the Skies

19:30 6 September 2017
Pulsars: Lighthouses of the Skies, by Professor Joel Weisberg In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the discovery of pulsars, we’re delighted to welcome Professor Joel Weisberg…

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