15 THE ART OBSERVER June 2007 Exhibitions MANCHESTER ART GALLERY Salvaged: Restoring the Sirens and Ulysses Until - 18 September 2007 Being Here: Photography by Eight Groups in Manchester Until – 08 July 2007 Kylie: The Exhibition 30 June- 08 July 2007 Art Treasures in Manchester: 150 years on 06 October 2007 - 27 January 2008 CORNERHOUSE Do Not Refreeze Until - 17 June 2007 Bitmapping A Cornerhouse Project Until - 17 June 2007 Navigating the Manchester Art Scene A Cornerhouse Project Until - 17 June 2007 WHITWORTH ART GALLERY A Secret Service: Art Compulsion, Concealment Until - 29 July 2007 Sleeping Beauties: Walter Gran and the Illustrated Book Until March 2008 URBIS PLAY: Experience the Adventure of Our Cities Until - 09 September 2007 Arrivals and Departures: New Art Perspectives of Hong Kong Until 08 July 2007 City til I Die Until - 31 August 2007 THE CORRIDOR GALLERY Ice pick: A single perspective of street art from Reykjavik Until - 13 August 2007 LOWRY Lowry Favourites Until - 31 December 2007 Ian Berry: In The North Until - 10 June 2007 Ian Berry: The Water Project Until - 24 June 2007 David Miles: Inspired by Lowry Until - 17 June 2007 CHINESE ARTS CENTRE Monkey Journey to the West 28 June – 15 July WENDY J LEVY GALLERY, DIDSBURY Michael, Ghislaine and Cordelia Howard Exhibition of Paintings 15 June - 5 July 2007 Dawn Rowland Sculpture and drawings June 30, July 1 & 2  2007 (Please ring the gallery for details of this exhibition) Gina Ward Exhibition of paintings and drawings 12 July – 1 August 2007 Summer Exhibition Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 9 August – 31 August 2007 Liam Spencer Exhibition of Recent Paintings September 2007 Richard Clare Exhibition of Recent Paintings October 2007 Martin Murrey Exhibition of Recent Paintings November 2007 Winter Exhibition Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture December 2007 and January 2008 FACT LIVERPOOL Artefact by Suzi Webster Location: The Bar @ FACT Until - 08 June 2007 Silicon Remembers Carbon by David Rokeby Location: Gallery 1, Gallery 2, Media Lounge Until - 10 June 2007 AI & AI 01 June - 22 June 2007 Fact Video Positive Retrospective 03 August - 07 September 2007 TATE LIVERPOOL DLA Piper Series: International Modern Art Until 2008 The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China Until - 10 June 2007 Centre of the Creative Universe: Liverpool and the Avant-Garde Until - 09 September 2007 Peter Blake 29 June - 23 September 2007 Tate 08 Series: Ellen Gallagher Until - 27 August 2007 WALKER ART GALLERY Unnatural Selection: Jewellery, objects and sculpture by Peter Chang 15 June - 30 September 2007 The Art of Josh Kirby 15 June - 30 September 2007 The Stage LIBRARY THEATRE, MANCHESTER Someone who’ll watch over me Until - 16 June 2007 Dead Wedding 5 July - 7 July Private Lives by Noel Coward 7 September - 6 October 2007 Jane Bond by Lip Service Company 9 - 20 October 2007 The Faithhealer by Brian Friel 26 October - 17 November 2007 Shades of Brown by Rasa Company 20 - 24 November 2007 Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce 1 December 2007 - 19 January 2008 THE ROYAL EXCHANGE THEATRE The Tempest Until - 07 July 2007 Daniel Kitson Until - 03 June 2007 Pretend You Have Big Buildings 11 July - 04 August 2007 PALACE THEATRE, MANCHESTER Mahabharata Until - 02 June 2007 The Best of Broadway 3 June 2007 Monkey - Journey to the West 28 June - 07 July 2007 Lady Salsa 30 July – 04 August 2007 West Side Story 23 - 25 August 2007 The Nutcracker 11-14 October 2007 OPERA HOUSE, MANCHESTER 42nd street 12 - 23 June 2007 Il Tempo del Postino 12 - 14 July 2007 South Pacific 25 - 29 September 2007 Carmen (Ellen Kent International) 26 November - 1 December 2007 USEFUL TELEPHONE NUMBERS Central Library Theatre 0161 234 1900 Chinese Arts Centre 0161 832 7271 Cornerhouse 0161 200 1500 FACT 0151 707 4444 Liverpool Tate 0151 702 7400 Lowry 0870 787 5780 Manchester Art Gallery 0161 235 8888 Opera House 0870 145 1163 Palace Theatre 0870 145 1163 Royal Exchange Theatre 0161 833 9833 Salford Museum & Art Gallery 0161 736 2649 The Urbis 0161 605 8200 Walker Art Gallery 0151 478 4199 Wendy J Levy Gallery 0161 446 4880 Whitworth Art Gallery 0161 275 7450 WHATS ON NORTHERN ARTISTS TUESDAY 30 OCTOBER AT 7PM To be included in our next specialist Northern Artists auction to be held at URBIS, Cathedral Gardens, Manchester FURTHER ENQUIRIES FROM WILLIAM GREGORY Regular Specialist Auctions for Antique Furniture & Clocks, Fine Paintings, Jewellery, Silver and Watches, Ceramics and Glass, Books and Prints, Toys, Collectables with Football Programmes, Militaria and Fishing Tackle Capes Dunn & Co, The Auction Galleries, 38 Charles Street, Manchester M1 7DB  Telephone: 0161 273 1911 SERVING THE NORTH WEST FOR 181 YEARS Helen Bradley (1900-1979) Watercolour drawing ‘The Knocker-up Man’ Signed 15in x 22in Estimate £25,000-30,000