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.…

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…

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…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Massimo Fusillo: 'Negative Empathy, Fear, Catharsis: An Intermedial Itinerary'

17:00 - 19:00 5 October 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's programme for the 2017/18 academic year, 'Constraints of Creativity'. Massimo Fusillo (University of L'Aquila) will deliver a public lecture entitled…

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…

Legacies of Slavery and Abolition in Manchester

18:00 14 September - 18:00 14 October 2017
An exhibition sharing the story of the Atlantic Slave Trade and its legacies in Manchester and around the world, with original artefacts, contemporary artworks and new research from…

Lovell Lecture: The Lovell Telescope at 60

19:30 - 21:00 5 October 2017
Thursday 5th October, 7:30pm Join professors Tim O’Brien and Simon Garrington in this anniversary special celebrating 60 years of the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank. Standing tall…

Maeve Brennan: The Drift

30 September 2017 - 1 February 2018
Maeve Brennan: The Drift 30 September 2017 – February 2018 The Drift, is a major new film commission by contemporary artist Maeve Brennan in her first institutional solo exhibition.…

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…

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,…

Raqs Media Collective: Twilight Language

30 September 2017 - 25 February 2018
Raqs Media Collective: Twilight Language 30 September 2017 – 25 February 2018 The first major UK exhibition by Raqs Media Collective at the Whitworth and throughout Whitworth Park…

Reena Saini Kallat

10:00 30 September 2017 - 17:00 25 February 2018
Acclaimed artist Reena Saini Kallat has delved into Manchester Museum’s natural science and human culture collections for her solo exhibition. Her newly-commissioned sculpture Chorus…

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…

South Asian Modernists 1953-63

30 September 2017 - 15 April 2018
South Asian Modernists 1953-63 30 September – 15 April 2018 South Asian Modernists will explore the works of Pakistani and Indian artists who worked with Victor Musgrave between 1953-63.…

Steve McQueen: Ashes

22 September 2017 - 12 March 2018
Steve McQueen: Ashes 22 September 2017 – March 2019 Ashes (2002-2015), a double video projection, tells the story of a young Caribbean man known by this name. On one screen we see…

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…

CIDRAL Seminar: Massimo Fusillo: 'The Object-Fetish: From Memory to Alterity'

11:00 - 13:00 6 October 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's programme for the 2017/18 academic year, 'Constraints of Creativity'. Massimo Fusillo (University of L'Aquila) will lead a seminar entitled 'The Object-Fetish:…

Rutherford's Manchester: the birthplace of nuclear physics

13:00 - 14:00 7 October 2017
In 1917, the Nobel Prize winner Ernest Rutherford became the first person to create an artificial nuclear reaction, here in laboratories at the University. To mark the centenary and…

Professor Erik Swyngedouw: Life and Death in the Urbicene

16:30 11 October 2017
Prof Swyngedouw has a long-standing interest in understanding the political, economic, and environmental dynamics of capitalism and the social forces and practices that aim at its transformation…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Elisabeth Lebovici: ‘Precious Liquids’

17:00 - 19:00 12 October 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's programme for the 2017/18 academic year, 'Constraints of Creativity'. Elisabeth Lebovici will be at the University of Manchester for a two-day research…

Lives of Letters Network: Networks and Individuals

17:00 - 18:30 12 October 2017
The Lives and Afterlives of Letters Network is a newly established, interdisciplinary network which draws together academics and library professionals working on the study and curation…

CIDRAL Seminar and Roundtable: Elisabeth Lebovici: ‘Interdisciplinarity as Resistance’

10:00 - 12:00 13 October 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's programme for the 2017/18 academic year, 'Constraints of Creativity'. Elisabeth Lebovici will be at the University of Manchester for a two-day research…

Time and Space in China: The Urban World of Beijing in Photographs

16 October - 10 November 2017
This photographic exhibition present the on-going changes of Beijing; changes that not only refer to the surface of urban space, but also many aspects of people’s daily life and their…

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