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THE ART OBSERVER
August 2009
Exhibitions
WENDY J LEVY GALLERY, DIDSBURY
Summer Mixed Show
30 July to 27 August 09
Buy Art Fair, Urbis
24 to 27 September 09
Richard Clare
1 October to 24 October 09
Lisa De Prudhoe
29 October to 21 November 09
CORNERHOUSE
Procession: An Exhibition
9 July to 23 August 09
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2009
12 September to 25 October 09
Artur Zmijewski
13 November to 10 January 10
MANCHESTER ART GALLERY
JS Bach/Zaha Hadid Architects
3 July to 31 August 09
Free during the day, see www.mif.co.uk
for evening concerts and booking details.
The Sting of Passion
11 July to 25 October 09
Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists
and Surrealism
26 September to 10 January 10
Tickets: £6 (concessions £4)
Under 18’s Free
URBIS
Videogame Nation
Until 20 September 09
State of the Art: New York
Until 6 September 09
The Best of Manchester Awards 2009
Until 20 September 09
WHITWORTH ART GALLERY
The Complete Roberta Breitmore
Lynn Hershman Leeson
1 August to Summer 10
Putting on the Glitz: wallpapers
and wallcoverings with that extra
something
1 August to November 09
CUBE
CUBEOpen 09
5 November to 9 January 10
MANCHESTER MUSEUM
Mark Dion’s Chaotic Bureau
Ongoing
The Evolutionist:
A Darwin Extravaganza
1 August 09 to 30 August 10
Behind the scenes archaeology tour
10 September
Behind the scenes entomology tour
11 September
Poetic Inspirations
17 September, 6.30-8pm
CHINESE ARTS CENTRE,
MANCHESTER
Birdhead: Song Tao & Ji Weiyu
11 July to 26 September 09
Ying Mei Duan
25 August to 25 November 09
LOWRY
Express Yourself- A Family Dance
Exhibition
10 April to 27 September
On the Island of Utopia
Until 6 September 09
Transformations 2: “A Clump of
Plinths” by Sarah Staton
Until 6 September 09
“Doing it……our way”- a celebration
of DIY’s Theatre
9 June to 31 August 09
The Half: Photographs of Actors by
Simon Annand
19 September to 3 January 10
The Sea: LS Lowry & Maggi Hambling
17 October to 31 January 10
SALFORD MUSUEM & GALLERY
Quiffs, Riffs and Tiffs: The Story of
popular music in Salford from 1950
to today
Until January 10
The People’s Mission
1 August to 1 November 09
Thomas Paine - Voice of the
Common People
15 August to 22 November 09
The Changing Face of Salford by
Salford Art Club
14 November to 14 February 10
Ray Lowry Retrospective
5 December to 7 March 10
STOCKPORT ART GALLERY
Mad about Books
18 July to 9 October 09
Permanent Collection Phases 1 and 2
Ongoing
FACT LIVERPOOL
Bernie Lubell: A Theory of
Entanglement
19 June to 6 September 09
Primitive
24 September to 29 November 09
TATE LIVERPOOL
DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture
1 May to 11 April 10
ARTIST ROOMS: Sol LeWitt
12 May to 13 September 09
Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour,
1950 to Today
29 May to 13 September 09
£7.80 (concessions £5.90)
Picasso: Peace and Freedom
Until 30 August 10
Tickets: £10 (concessions £8)
Mark Rothko: The Seagram Murals
2 October to 21 March 10
Joyous Machines: Michael Landy
and Jean Tinguely
2 October to 10 January 10
£5.90 (concessions £4.40)
WALKER ART GALLERY, LIVERPOOL
New Radicals: From Sickert to Freud
10 July to 20 September 09
Flashback: Bridget Riley
25 September to 13 December 09
The Rise of Women Artists
23 October to 14 March 10
On Stage
LIBRARY THEATRE, MANCHESTER
Angels With Manky Faces
18 to 22 August 09
Desperate To Be Doris
23 September to 3 October 09
Motherland
6 to 10 October 09
My Grandfather’s Great War
11 October 09
Shakespeare Schools Festival
12 to 17 October 09
Dreams of Violence
20 to 24 October 09
The Good Soul of Szechuan
30 October to 28 November 09
Grimm Tales
5 December to 23 January 10
ROYAL EXCHANGE, MANCHESTER
The Miser, By Moliere
2 September to 3 October 09
Punk Rock, By Simon Stephans
7 to 31 October 09
Jim Jefferies- The Hits
25 October 09
THE PALACE THEATRE, MANCHESTER
The Big Friendly Giant
25 to 29 August 09
S4K’s Macbeth
14 to 15 September 09
Giselle - English National Ballet
23 to 27 September 09
Dancing In The Streets
1 to 3 October 09
Joseph
20 to 25 October 09
Chicago the Musical
27 to 7 November 09
Scrooge The Musical Starring
Tommy Steele
9 to 13 November 09
THE OPERA HOUSE, MANCHESTER
Rob Brydon
17 September 09
Lord of the Dance
22 to 27 September 09
South Pacific
28 to 29 September 09
Blood Brothers
12 to 24 October 09
Beauty and the Beast
10 to 14 November 09
Aladdin
5 December to 3 January 10
USEFUL TELEPHONE NUMBERS
Cornerhouse 0161 200 1500
Manchester Art Gallery 0161 235 8888
Whitworth Art Gallery 0161 275 7450
Urbis 0161 605 8200
Chinese Arts Centre 0161 832 7271
Lowry 0870 787 2649
Fact 0151 707 4444
Liverpool Tate 0151 702 7400
Central Library Manchester
0161 234 1900
Walker Art Gallery 0151 478 4199
Royal Exchange Theatre 0161 833 9833
Palace Theatre 0870 145 1163
Opera House 0870 145 1163
Wendy J Levy Gallery 0161 446 4880
Manchester Museum 0161 275 2634
Salford Museum and Art Gallery
0161 745 9490
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Wendy J Levy
Contemporary
Art Limited
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
September Eva Hamilton-Fisher
October Richard Clare
November Lisa De Prudhoe
December Winter Mixed Show
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Wendy J Levy Contemporary Art Ltd,
17 Warburton Street, Didsbury, Manchester M20 6WA
Tel: 0161 446 4880. Email: wendy@wendyjlevy-art.com
www.wendyjlevy-art.com
Gallery Opening Hours: Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 5pm
