The footballing legend of Manchester United, Juan Mata, is participating in an avant-garde performance, not at the fringes of Berlin Gallery Weekend—but at the National Football Museum in Manchester, ...

The hotly anticipated opening of Manchester’s £186 million ($205 million) new cultural space Factory International will take place in June 2023, it was announced today. The new venue will form the ...

Manchester's cultural calendar is packed full of new and exciting openings for 2023, so it's no wonder that all eyes are on the city as it prepares to launch a number of landmark venues. Over the last ...

Yayoi Kusama’s inflatable sculptures—a room of tentacles, a towering pumpkin, and gigantic kawaii objects, all covered in polka dots—have christened the new 150,000-square-foot Aviva Studios, a ...

The cost of the long-awaited arts hub known as The Factory, the permanent home for the biennial Manchester International Festival, has risen by £20m. The revised budget for the 145,000 sq. ft complex ...

Tony Wilson, the cofounder of iconic Manchester label Factory Records (Joy Division, New Order, Happy Mondays, A Certain Ratio, more), died in 2007 after a battle with cancer. He left a final request: ...

The venue will open in summer 2023, four years behind the original schedule A major new arts venue in Manchester has seen its budget rise by another £25m, taking its total cost to £211m. That is £100m ...

A major exhibition exploring the lesser-known stories of Manchester's iconic Factory Records will finally open this month after a year's delay due to lockdown restrictions. Manchester's Science and ...