Forget the Louvre, the Pompidou, and the Tate (both of them). Only in Manchester Art Gallery can you see Francis Bacon’s “Portrait of Henrietta Moraes on a Blue Couch”, Walter Sickert’s “Jack the Ripper’s Bedroom” and Howard Hodgkin’s The Hopes At Home” – just some of the great modern art treasures of Manchester, which we shall unveil as we explore Manchester art and Manchester Art Gallery inside and out.
The atom bomb is hot news right now, thanks to this summer’s big blockbuster film, Oppenheimer, named after J. Robert Oppenheimer, organiser of the Manhattan Project which dropped the bombs on Japan in 1945.
Ed Glinert of New Manchester Walks, who has hosted countless local tours that include stopping at the atomic bunker on Chinatown’s George Street, and gives talks on the story of the atom bomb on cruise ships, relates the full atomic story to coincide with the release of the film and as the 78th anniversary of the dropping of the bombs in August 1945 to end the Second World War approaches.
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