Fantasies, Follies and Disasters: The Prints of Francisco de Goya

Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism

26 September 2009 – 10 January 2010 Manchester Art Gallery Tickets: £6 (concessions £4, free entry for under 18s and Manchester Art Gallery Friends)

The Sting of Passion : International Jewellery Artists Respond to the Pre-Raphaelite Collection

11 July – 25 October 2009 Manchester Art Gallery Free entry

What Are You Like? Self-revealing artworks by people in the public eye

4 July – 31 August 2009 Manchester Art Gallery Free entry

Green Drops and Moonsquirters: The Utterly Imaginative World of Lauren Child

21 June - 21 September 2008. Free entry. Manchester Art Gallery launches a major new exhibition this summer dedicated to the work of award-winning children’s author and illustrator Lauren Child. Child's best-selling books have been captivating children and their parents for almost 10 years. They include the hugely successful Charlie and Lola (who have gone on to become the stars of a CBBC and Disney Playhouse television series) as well as Clarice Bean, That Pesky Rat and Hubert Horatio Bartle Bobton-Trent.

Art Treasures in Manchester: 150 years on

6 Oct 2007 – 27 Jan 2008

Chien-Wei Chang

30 July 2007 – 27 January 2008

Sport for Sport’s Sake

14 July – 14 October 2007 Photographs by Paul Floyd Blake

Alien Nation

Saturday 17 March 2007 - Monday 7 May 2007. Free admission. Laylah Ali, Hamad Butt, Ellen Gallagher & Edgar Cleijne, David Huffman, Hew Locke, Marepe, Henna Nadeem, Kori Newkirk, Yinka Shonibare MBE, Eric Wesley and Mario Ybarra Jr.

Come and celebrate Chinese New Year at Manchester Art Gallery

Sunday 18 February 2007, 11am-5pm. Free family event. Kung hei fat choy! (Happy Chinese New Year). This February, Manchester Art Gallery is working with the city's Chinese community to create a colourful and joyous celebration to mark the beginning of the Chinese year of the pig.