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Blast Theory aim to make connection as FutureEverything returns for 17th year
The art, music and technology festival returns to Manchester with a test of "stealth, cunning and adventure" gamers can play online courtesy of BAFTA nominees Blast Theory.
From Exeter to Edinburgh, final four announced on "truly exceptional" Art Fund Prize shortlist
Ylva French takes a look at Art Fund final four The Hepworth Wakefield, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and the Watts Gallery.
From Joy Division artwork to Mark Leckey - artists back Castlefield Gallery auction
Castlefield Gallery’s fundraising auction - Put Your Money Where Your Eyes Are - features a very impressive selection of artworks drawn from far and wide.
60-Minute Cinema's three hour-long round ups of best Chinese film and video art
Amy Cheng, Dong Bingfeng and Teresa Kwong curate new moving image from Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China.
IWM North marks 30th anniversary of Falklands War with new photographic display
Images from the Imperial War Museum archives capturing both sides of the Falklands conflict have been blown up into huge frames outside the venue's Manchester home.
The Culture24/7: Science and Nature picks for April 2012
Henry Moore, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alan Turing and The Institute of Critical Zoologists all play a part as we pick a few of the best Science and Nature shows and events for April.
Photographer David Dunnico's 1984 Looks Like This at Salford Museum and art Gallery
Manchester photographer David Dunnico explores the rise of CCTV and the abiding resonance of George Orwell's Ninety Eighty-Four in a new show in Salford.
The Manchester Museum explores extraordinary work of Enigma cracker Alan Turing
Alan Turing and Life's Enigma looks at the years after the war, when the mathematician explored how living things develop shape and structure at the University of Manchester.
Thousands of sunflowers to be planted in honour of Alan Turing for MOSI-led experiment
To mark the centenary year of Turing's birth, the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester is asking members of the public to help complete one of his unfinished projects.
Works from the Collection: Dark Matters and Idris Khan's The Devil's Wall at the Whitworth
Idris Khan presents a new installation on the Hajj made by Muslims to Mecca, and Dark Matters explores shadow and tone using works from the collection in Manchester.
The Culture24/7: History highlights for March
Kensington Palace reopens, the hut where Roald Dahl concocted his stories goes on show and Manchester Histories Festival comes to an end. Here are a few history highlights.
From Elle, Cosmopolitan and Vogue to the Chinese Arts Centre: Chen Man in Manchester
The Chinese Arts Centre hosts a debut solo show in the UK for leading Beijing photographer Chen Man, who makes kaleidoscopic images of unobtainable beauty.
AV Wroe's "birdcage on bicycle wheels" Triplane inspires playwright at MOSI
A visit to the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester has inspired playwright Berlie Doherty to pen a play about a World War I flyer who is drawn to the Peak District.
COTTON: Global Threads arrive at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester
Four years in the making, curator Jennifer Harris and her team take over a floor of the Whitworth for an exploration of the cotton industry which tells its 200-year-old story through installations,......
Museum of Science and Industry volunteer fires up rare example of earliest electrical light
The expertise of an electrical ace working behind the scenes in Manchester has allowed the public to see one of the earliest electrical lamps in action again.
