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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.
A groovy kind of love at Manchester Art Gallery
The ultimate event for the ‘sex and the city’ singleton has arrived, when on Valentine’s Day (Wednesday 14 February. 6.30-9.30pm) Manchester Art Gallery plays host to a sophisticated singles night for people with a penchant for art and a love of 60’s style.
Sophie MacCorquodale: Waiting for the day
Until Sunday 8 April 2007. Free admission. MacCorquodale is the winner of the 3rd annual Crosby Manchester Art Prize. The prize encourages talented emerging artists living or working in Greater Manchester by giving them the opportunity show their work at Manchester Art Gallery, with an accompanying publication.
Pae White: in no particular order
1 July - 3 September 2006. Free admission. The first solo exhibition in the UK by California-based artist Pae White. White’s artistic practice shifts across differing genres and media, from fine art and product design to urban planning and architecture, typography and graphics.
Salvaged: Restoring The Sirens and Ulysses
From March 2006 to autumn 2007, visitors to Manchester Art Gallery can now witness live work on most ambitious conservation project ever: the restoration of William Etty's dramatic painting The Dirnes and Ulsysses.
