Exhibitions, Seminar

Alison Wilding

16 February - 12 August 2018
Turner Prize nominee and Royal Academician Alison Wilding presents works spanning the past 20 years of her career. This new show at the Whitworth will comprise of three major sculptures,…

Apna: Ours Yours Everybody’s

3 February - 13 May 2018
Apna is a word used in many languages across South Asia meaning ‘ours, yours or everybody’s’. This reflects how the Whitworth shares the collection that is housed here. In the Collections…

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.…

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,…

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…

Exchanges

24 March - 8 April 2018
Exchanges sets art and artists together, sometimes in harmony, sometimes in opposition – always with insight and intention. Works by Gillian Wearing, William Hogarth and Louise Bourgious…

Exchanges

24 March 2018 - 2 February 2020
Exchanges sets art and artists together, sometimes in harmony, sometimes in opposition – always with insight and intention. In this evolving exhibition, art that has recently been…

In the Land

27 January - 4 November 2018
Rethinking the form, texture and space of the natural landscape. This exhibition looks back at a period of intense experimentation in British painting and sculpture where artists,…

John Stezaker

1 December 2017 - 24 June 2018
Using vintage photographs, old film stills, postcards and book illustrations, John Stezaker makes collages that subvert their original imagery, creating unique and compelling works…

MACBETH - Toil and Trouble

10:00 - 11:00 27 March 2018
Performance 10am - 11am Workshops 11.15am – 12pm Join award-winning 1623 Theatre as they chart the journey of literature’s most famous deadly duo, in this hour-long adaptation of…

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.…

Geography Department Research Seminar : Dr Maria Rusca (Department of Geography, King's College London)

16:00 - 17:30 28 March 2018
Geography Department Research Seminar Materialising critical water studies Dr Maria Rusca (Department of Geography, King's College London) Chaired by Ali Browne Abstract: Although…

Isaac Julien: Ten Thousand Waves

30 March - 28 August 2018
Ten Thousand Waves is the most recent in a series of major moving image acquisitions by the Whitworth and was supported through Art Fund’s Moving Image Fund. Rooted in the Morecambe…

Nature Through Roman Eyes

10:00 6 April - 17:00 30 October 2018
Nature Through Roman Eyes is inspired by the work of Roman writer Pliny the Elder. His Natural History – a 37 book encyclopaedia of the ancient world - covers every subject from astronomy…

Rutherford's Manchester: the birthplace of nuclear physics

13:00 - 14:00 7 April 2018
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…

Art History Seminar: "Agnès Varda and Memory Three Jumpers in Three Films", Hazel Shaw

17:30 9 April 2018
Art History and Film Studies PhD student Hazel Shaw will be discussing her research on director Agnès Varda. Hazel's thesis will offer an analysis Varda's films and art through the…

CMI Afternoon Seminar Series

15:00 - 16:30 10 April 2018
Dr Nikolas Mittag, Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education – Economics Institute (CERGE-EI) Abstract: Tea/coffee and cakes from 2.45. Join us for this event, which…

Business Enterprise Exchange Event

12:00 - 13:00 11 April 2018
The Enterprise Exchange will provide more information about a topic relating to Enterprise or Knowledge Exchange, framed around a ‘Question Time’ style panel discussion. The event…

Doctors Worldwide in conversation at HCRI

16:30 - 18:00 16 April 2018
Join HCRI for a discussion with Mr Ibrar Majid and Dr Shazaad Ahmad, trustees of Doctors Worldwide, to hear about their experience in medical humanitarian work and why they remain committed…

CIDRAL Masterclass: Stefano Ercolino: 'The Dialectic of Realism'

10:00 - 12:00 17 April 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's 2017/18 programme, 'The Constraints of Creativity' Stefano Ercolino (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Yonsei University's Underwood International…

Yota Deli (Glasgow)

16:15 - 17:45 17 April 2018

Critical Global Politics Cluster Seminars Semester 2, 2017-2018 - Wednesday 18th of April - Veronique Pin-fat - University of Manchester

15:30 - 17:00 18 April 2018
Wednesday, April 18 3.30-5pm ALB G30/31 Veronique Pin-Fat University of Manchester The horror of love and the love of horror in IR: Spectacles of violence as ethical encounter

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