43 h. ago Dorothy Waugh’s epic 1930s national park posters – in pictures

Between 1934 and 1936, artist Dorothy Waugh was commissioned to create 17 posters for the National Park Service, a groundbreaking opportunity for a female designer at the time. Her designs, which were both accessible and avant-garde, are being celebrated in an exhibition for the first time at New York’s Poster House. Blazing A Trail: Dorothy Waugh’s National Parks Posters is on display until 22 February 2026 Continue reading...

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43 h. ago Dorothy Waugh’s epic 1930s US national park posters – in pictures

Between 1934 and 1936, artist Dorothy Waugh was commissioned to create 17 posters for the National Park Service, a groundbreaking opportunity for a female designer at the time. Her designs, which were both accessible and avant-garde, are being celebrated in an exhibition for the first time at New York’s Poster House. Blazing A Trail: Dorothy Waugh’s National Parks Posters is on display until 22 February 2026 Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Man United Women player ratings vs PSG with five 7/10s as Melvine Malard shines

Manchester United Women continued their 100 per cent record in the Champions League with a 2-1 win against Paris Saint-Germain.

Sport

3 d. ago Sir Jim Ratcliffe told 'not a penny' as Man Utd get huge New Trafford stadium plan update

Manchester United are planning to build a new 100,000-seater stadium and controversial co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe suggested taxpayers could help fund the £2billion project

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8 d. ago Man Utd's new £2bn stadium dealt fresh setback as Rachel Reeves 'won't provide funding'

Manchester United unveiled plans to build a new 100,000-seater stadium in March, but the project has been hit by a 'fresh financial blow'

Economics

1 week ago ‘A model of the transnational artist’: Cuban artist Wifredo Lam gets first US retrospective

The major modernist artist is finally getting a blockbuster exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, celebrating a career filled with innovationAlthough he was a major modernist artist whose collaborators ranged from European greats like Pablo Picasso and André Breton to new world giants like Aimé Césaire, Cuban artist Wifredo Lam has not seen a major US retrospective worthy of his stature. That changes with the MoMA’s blockbuster show Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream.The product of years of work and dozens of collaborations with institutions and collectors around the world, When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream shows the entire sweep of a career that straddled eras. Lam is best-known for agglomerations of elongated and mysterious figures that borrow from cubism and surrealism, although the exhibition also shows different sides of this artist: lushly colored and textured pieces that verge on abstraction, sculptural heads that point toward the artist’s African roots, early figura...

Culture

1 week ago A Dolce Vita for less than £100,000: How a man from Manchester bought and renovated his dream Italian home for just £86,000

As autumn settles in and the weather becomes more chilly, many of us may be fantasising about sunnier climes overseas. But for Jonathan Smith, of Manchester, this is his reality.

Economics

1 week ago AD FEATURE: Centenary exhibition celebrates 100 years of Manchester Model Railway Society

This year’s event will take place from Saturday, December 13, to Sunday, December 14, 2025, and is the biggest yet

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1 week ago Four Greater Manchester residents scoop £100,000 as Premium Bond winners revealed

NS&I has revealed its November Premium Bond winners

Economics

2 w. ago 'I bagged almost £100 profit on car boot sale finds after seller's mistake'

A man who purchased three separate items at a car boot sale for a grand total of £7.50 has managed to turn over almost £100 in profit - all because of one mistake

Economics

2 w. ago Emily Ratajkowski turns heads as she shows off cleavage in plunging black coat with Swarovski necklace on red carpet

MODEL Emily Ratajkowski looks a real treasure at an exhibition to celebrate the Swarovski jewellery brand. The US star, 34, wore a revealing black coat and glittering crystal necklace at the Los Angeles event marking the Austrian company’s links to Hollywood. Reality TV sisters Sarah Jane Nader, 23, and Brooks Nader, 28, also sparkled on...

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2 w. ago Massive makeover set for north Manchester suburb as council eyes new square and more 100 new homes

It's the latest Manchester suburb to see millions invested

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2 w. ago Annie Kilner, 32, hires Mr Loophole after WAG was 'caught speeding in her £100K Range Rover'

Annie Kilner , 33, was allegedly caught travelling at 64mph in a 50mph zone in her £100,000 Range Rover while on the A556 on the Manchester Airport ring road in May.

Economics

2 w. ago ‘All roads lead to Grace Jones’: visual artists on the music that fires them up in the studio

Chris Ofili loves steel pans. Lindsey Mendick adores Self Esteem. And Ragnar Kjartansson enjoys everything from Bach to the Cure. Artists reveal the bangers that get their creative juices fizzingFrom Johannes Vermeer’s music lesson to Piet Mondrian’s tribute to boogie-woogie, with its small bars of colour flitting across the canvas to a radical new rhythm, art and music have made natural bedfellows. Now Peter Doig is celebrating his love of music with an exhibition at the Serpentine in London that pairs recent paintings with his favourite records played through an extraordinary sound system. So we asked other contemporary artists what music means to them. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Margaret Howell celebrates the work of a seminal weaver with rare exhibition

Margaret Howell celebrates the work of a seminal weaver with rare exhibition  wallpaper.com

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