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…

Cecily Brown: Shipwreck drawings

17 November 2017 - 15 April 2018
This is an exhibition of a extraordinary series of drawings by Cecily Brown, of wrecked ships and their passengers. Brown’s practice of painterly interrogation of an existing image,…

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…

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…

GDI Lecture: Prof AbdouMaliq Simone on collective operations in urban settings

14:00 - 15:30 17 November 2017
The Global Development Institute and the Manchester Urban Institute are pleased to present Prof AbdouMaliq Simone, (University of South Australia) to discuss how urban residents increasingly…

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…

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…

Annual Melland Schill Lecture

17:30 - 19:00 21 November 2017
Manchester International Law Centre has the immense privilege of welcoming Sir Michael Wood to deliver this year's Melland Schill Lecture, with the title: 'The UN International Law…

Invitation to inaugural lecture with Professor Susan Rutherford

17:00 - 18:00 22 November 2017
You are invited to attend Susan Rutherford's professorial inaugural lecture. The title of the lecture is:“'Perfect Day', or the History of Singing in Britain in One Song”. The lecture…

HCRI Landmark Lecture with Pierre Carli - The 2015 Paris Terrorist Attacks: Medical Management and Lessons Learned

17:30 - 19:30 23 November 2017
HCRI is pleased to welcome Pierre Carli as the guest speaker at our 2017 Landmark Lecture. In 2015, the city of Paris was the target of a number of terrorist attacks, including a series…

GDI Lecture: Prof William Ferguson on collective action, inequality and development

17:00 - 18:30 29 November 2017
The Global Development Institute Lecture Series is pleased to present Prof William Ferguson, Grinnell College to deliver the Adrian Leftwich Annual Lecture. Prof William Ferguson will…

Invitation to inaugural lecture with Professor Caroline Bithell

17:00 - 18:00 29 November 2017
You are invited to attend Caroline Bithell's professorial inaugural lecture. The title of the lecture is: "Bridges and Brokers: Musical Renaissance and the Politics of Heritage in…

Royal Economic Society 2017 Annual Public Lecture

15:30 - 18:00 29 November 2017
The Royal Economic Society will be hosting one of the countries’ most inspiring economists, Professor Stephen Machin, to give the next RES Annual Public Lecture this autumn at The University…

Art History Seminar: 'Hazlitt on Turner and Blake' - T.J. Clark (Professor Emeritus in Modern Art, University of California, Berkeley)

17:30 - 19:00 30 November 2017
Visiting Pilkington Professor in Art History, T.J. Clark (Professor Emeritus in Modern Art, University of California, Berkeley), will present a lecture entitled: '"I have said to the…

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