Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism

Andrew Bracey: Animalation

See a selection of flip-book inspired animations by Manchester-based artist Andrew Bracey in this new exhibition.

Visual Dialogues

Look out for Marc Quinn's sculpture No Visible Means of Escape IV (1996) on loan from Tate and on display in our Victorian Galleries as part of the Visual Dialogues programme.

What Are You Like?

From Quentin Blake to Eric Clapton, 45 famous names reveal their favourite things in this exhibition celebrating the art of illustration.

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

Discover Goya's extraordinary use of imagination, wit and satire in this exhibition of around 30 rarely-displayed prints from our collections.

Visual Dialogues: Disasters of War

See the Chapman Brothers' gruesome sculpture Disasters of War alongside the Goya etchings that inspired it.

Facing East: Recent Works from China, India and Japan from the Frank Cohen Collection

Prepare to be amazed by ten rarely-shown works by current and future global art stars from China, India and Japan. Facing East is a wondrous exhibition featuring outstanding contemporary paintings and sculptures drawn from one of the largest and most important, privately held contemporary art collections in the UK today.

ARTIST ROOMS Ron Mueck

Ron Mueck's hyper-real sculptures of the human figure are tender portrayals of people in their most intimate, isolated and vulnerable moments. This exhibition features three of his remarkable, out of scale sculptures: Wild Man, 2005; Spooning Couple, 2005; and Mask III, 2005.

A World Observed 1940 - 2010: Photographs by Dorothy Bohm

This is the first comprehensive retrospective to trace Dorothy Bohm’s exceptional photographic career – a career that spans six decades and several continents.

Women Like You

Charlotte Newson’s photo-mosaic portrait of Manchester suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst is formed from thousands of images of other inspirational women, supplied by people around the world.