Visual Arts
SOFA – Manchester’s first ‘Art Bar’
"As a freshly graduated Visual Arts student, I know first hand the difficulty of displaying your work in a recognised…
AmArts: Everybody's doing it
For those who believe in art for art's sake does burgeoning interest in amateur and community arts mark a return…
The future is India
The Indian contemporary art market has been booming over the last few years. Figures suggest that Indian art is appreciating…
Singing their hearts out
Who could ask for anything more at the third Cardiff International Festival of Musical Theatre? That’s the question 300 local…
Cadaver art: deceased
The people who make it say it's not art. So why does the media still talk about the Body Worlds…
To believe or not to believe
"Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors," philosophized Thomas Huxley. But the distinguished English biologist’s argument, however…
Is the web revolutionizing the art market?
The world wide web’s potential as an information superhighway for the masses in generating discussion, debate and participation challenges the…
Your Gallery at The Saatchi Gallery
A new virtual gallery set up by British mega-art-patron and artist king-maker Charles Saatchi is opening doors for emerging talent…
Artistic identity in an age of terror
Post 9/11 do Arab-American artists have to pick a side or can they use their heritage to inform new bodies…
Smorgasbord for the senses
As the place where the spinning jenny and the computer were invented, Manchester is often touted as the world’s first…