For the past few weeks, Manchester’s streets have been filling up with posters advertising the Manchester International ...

And so the advert for Dinosaur World Live, served up by a social media algorithm, should have set my eye twitching. Nope. I ...

Manchester has long been the locus of world-shattering political meetings, from Marx and Engels writing the Communist ...

Adam Farrer, author of Broken Biscuits and Other Male Failures, listens patiently and nods. I’m interviewing him about his ...

British Textile Biennial 2023It’s only young but the British Textile Biennial has woven its place into the fabric of mill towns across Lancashire. The theme of BTB23 is the Politics of Cloth, but ...

Picture Gallery - Winnifred Nicholson: Cumbrian Rag RugsShe was lauded as an exceptional painter. Now a new exhibition highlights something entirely different: rag rugs. Tullie House in Carlisle is ...

MIF23’s opening night world premiere performed at HOME is an adaptation of a cult fantasy novel written in 1977 by Larry Mitchell and Ned Asia, in which history is reimagined through the lens of the ...

More than a decade after the modernist society’s first intervention at the site, staging an uninvited artist’s residency, it has returned to the scene of what it then described as a crime to organise ...

This month, Lincoln has been treated to Scarborough Macabre, an off-season sojourn to the seaside in which artist Melody Phelan-Clark “regurgitates the strange and sinister nature of the British coast ...

Review: Manchester Medieval Quarter FestivalGrowing up in central Italy, one of the highlights of my summer holidays was visiting small towns re-enacting their medieval history with falconry shows, ...

Julia and Axel: Thirty Years of Favourite Stories celebrates the professional partnership between Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Together, they have created some of the world’s best-loved and ...