Exhibitions, Lecture

A Rubbish Night at the Museum

10:00 19 April - 17:00 5 May 2018
If you care about the rubbish in the streets of Greater Manchester, come along and see an exhibition of nearly 100 displays by artists, photographers, researchers, companies, community…

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.…

Brexit and the North West

13:00 - 14:00 22 April 2018
Wajid Khan became Labour’s newest North West Member of European Parliament in June 2017. In European Parliament Wajid sits on the Committee on Foreign Affairs; the Subcommittee on Human…

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 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,…

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…

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…

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…

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

17:00 - 19:00 24 April 2018
This event is co-hosted by History at the University of Manchester and CIDRAL. Judith Walkowitz (Professor Emeritus in History, Johns Hopkins University), will deliver a public lecture…

NHS Confederation public lecture - NHS at 70: The Story of Our Lives

18:00 - 20:00 24 April 2018
To mark the 70th anniversary of the NHS, Dr Stephanie Snow, Project Director ‘NHS at 70: The Story of Our Lives’, will be giving a special lecture exploring the social history of the…

Art History Seminar: Dr Bernard Vere "Body Politics: Sport and the Avant-Garde Between the Wars"

17:30 - 20:00 25 April 2018
Dr Bernard Vere (Program Director, MA Fine and Decorative Art and Design, Sotheby's Institute of Art) specializes in art from the late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. His work…

Peter Knight Inaugural Professorial Lecture - "Everything is Connected"

17:00 - 18:00 25 April 2018
Peter Knight Professor of American Studies ‘Everything is Connected’ One of the central assumptions of conspiracy theories is that ‘everything is connected’. Conspiracy narratives…

Youth Mobilisation and the (anti)-Brexit Campaign: where next?

18:00 - 20:00 27 April 2018
Youth Mobilisation and the (anti)-Brexit Campaign: where next?

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Michael North, 'Connected Oceans: Seas as Media of Global Exchange'

17:00 - 19:00 2 May 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's 2017/18 programme, The Constraints of Creativity. Hallsworth Visiting Fellow, Michael North (Professor of Modern History, University of Greifswald),…

GDI Lecture with Dr Sara Dorman: Understanding Zimbabwe: from liberation to authoritarianism

16:30 - 17:30 2 May 2018
The Global Development Institute Lecture Series is pleased to present Dr Sara Dorman, The University of Edinburgh, to discuss Zimbabwe: from liberation to authoritarianism Zimbabwe’s…

Lecture "Hieroglyphics of Blackness"

17:00 - 18:30 2 May 2018
Henry "Box" Brown Inaugural Lecture in American Studies by Dr Ivy Wilson (Northwestern)

Joint lecture with MANCASS: Michael Wood ‘The Lady of the Mercians: Aethelflaed (d. 918), daughter of Alfred the Great’

18:00 - 19:30 3 May 2018
Joint lecture with MANCASS: Michael Wood ‘The Lady of the Mercians: Aethelflaed (d. 918), daughter of Alfred the Great’

Bodies of Colour: Breaking With Stereotypes in the Wallpaper Collection

4 May 2018 - 28 April 2019
This latest exhibition uses the Whitworth’s extensive and significant wallpaper collection to focus on how Imperial attitudes to people are reflected in wallpaper. The wallpapers in…

CIDRAL Masterclass: Michael North, 'Cultural Exchanges'

10:00 - 12:00 8 May 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's 2017/18 programme, The Constraints of Creativity. Hallsworth Visiting Fellow, Michael North (Professor of Modern History, University of Greifswald),…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Pierpaolo Antonello: 'Bruno Munari’s Political Aesthetics'

17:00 - 19:00 8 May 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's 2017/18 programme, The Constraints of Creativity. Pierpaolo Anontello (Reader in Italian Literature and Culture, University of Cambridge) will deliver…

John Rylands Research Institute Annual Lecture with Jeanette Winterson

18:00 - 19:00 8 May 2018
Please note that the date of this event has changed. “Reading the Future: Books, power, people, robots, and Dante” The John Rylands Library was founded by Enriqueta Rylands in memory…

Schuster Colloquium: Black Holes, Climate Change & Food Security

14:30 - 16:00 9 May 2018
The global population is projected to grow to 11 billion by the end of the century, contributing to increased competition for land, water and energy resources. The climate is also changing…

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