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The current director of Whitworth Art Gallery and Manchester Art Galleries is expected to take the top job at Tate.
The Italian artist and hardcore punk singer Nico Vascellari presents his large-scale, haunting audio-visual installation, Bus de la Lum, at Manchester’s Whitworth. Dany Louise asks him about the work’s meaning and his wider practice.
The Whitworth Art Gallery follows its recent Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year win with a nomination for this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize.
This year’s Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year has been awarded to Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery, which reopened in February after a £15m extension.
Over 180,000 people have visited the newly expanded Manchester gallery since it reopened in February following the completion of £15m refurbishment, smashing its previous highest annual visitor figure in just three months.
The recently re-furbished Whitworth in Manchester and Belfast’s The MAC are among the contenders for this year’s Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year.
The Whitworth reopened this weekend following the extension being added to the rear. It was great to go and see what it is like now and it was not disappointing. The work on display by Cornelia Parker I especially enjoyed, […]
After a £15m redevelopment, Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery reopens with a stunning redesign that has doubled its size and opened it up to the public park it backs on to. All the better for displaying new shows by artists including Cornelia Parker, Sarah Lucas and Thomas Schütte, reports Bob Dickinson.
This weekend, Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester is celebrating its temporary closure for a major redevelopment. We talk to its director about the need to grow, planning for the future and the importance of a good send off.
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
23 February – 13 May 2012
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
11 February – 13 May 2012
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
17 September – 14 December 2008
The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
5 May 2007 to 7 July 2007
