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WarholMania review – lifting the lid on the ultimate self-promoter

Two little-known American photographers offer juxtaposed perspectives on the iconic artist’s early period in New York with images that were almost lost to history

The Guardian - UK · Sep 13, 2024

Andy Warhol's Factory made a fortune off other people's work. Now desperate artists are accusing generative AI of supercharging that model

Warhol once said "Art is anything you can get away with.” Will Midjourney get away with training its image-generating AI on thousands of artworks?

Fortune · Jan 6, 2024

Where to start with: Iain Banks

He catapulted to fame with depraved, funny novel The Wasp Factory in 1984, but the much-loved Scottish writer had a parallel career as an influential sci-fi writer

The Guardian - UK · Jun 29, 2023

Danny Boyle Matrix ‘spectacular’ to open Manchester’s Factory

Show entitled Free Your Mind will be the first production at the city’s much-anticipated new arts venue

The Guardian - UK · Sep 29, 2022

‘We nearly threw them out’: the photographs of Andy Warhol that sat in a cupboard for 50 years

William John Kennedy worked with the artist on a unique set of images. Now, his widow and other figures from Warhol’s ‘menagerie’ reflect on life at the Factory

The Guardian - UK · Sep 3, 2022

The £186m building that's changing the city skyline

The Factory arts building is beginning to take its dramatic shape in a prime site in the city centre

Manchester Evening News · Sep 1, 2022

Stray: Worker Jacket and Hat locations

Get inside Midtown's Factory with the Worker Jacket and Worker Hat. We've got the locations you need with this Stray guide.

USA Today Sports Media Group · Jul 22, 2022

Expectant mums and dads invited to take part in major new public artwork in Manchester

Anyone expecting a baby in January 2023 is invited to take part in the event which will celebrate the births of Manchester and Salford's newest residents

Manchester Evening News · Jul 7, 2022

London developer to knock down half-built Hackney Wick flats over safety fears

The £48 million scheme in Fish Island will be dismantled after builders found “potential structural issues” with its concrete frame

Evening Standard · May 12, 2022

Yours for $200m: why Warhol is now worth more than Picasso

One of his portraits of Marilyn Monroe is expected to shatter records at auction next month. But was Andy Warhol just an ‘affectless hero’ of the media age? Or was he the greatest and most profound artist of his era?

The Guardian - UK · Apr 13, 2022