At a glance guide to exhibitions from Friday, June 28 until Friday, July 5. For full listings click here .
MANCHESTER
Manchester Art Gallery: Newly opened after four-year closure, the gallery offers superb collection of pre-Raphaelite and Victorian paintings, new modern art galleries and special exhibition Inhale/Exhale by Michael Craig-Martin. MEN sponsored gallery has Seven People Seeing - work by young people working for Manchester Foyer (Mosley Street 235 8888).
Whitworth Art Gallery: Tales of Power: West African textiles. Travelogue - views of Britain by seven contemporary artists (Oxford Road, 275 7450).
Blyth Gallery: A Kind of Blue and Other Colours - colour abstracts by Jo Jenkins (Amazon House, Brazil St 236 1004).
Castlefield Gallery: Newly re-opened artist-led gallery (Hewitt Street 832 8034).
Chinese Arts Centre: The Red March - Joshua Jing's work inspried by the Chinese fascination for the colour red (Edge St 832 7271).
Cornerhouse: Spectator Sport - group exhibition by international artists including Mark Lewis and Tracey Moffatt on televised sport (Oxford Rd).
GREATER MANCHESTER
The Lowry:
A City's Pride, blockbuster show of more than 300 Lowry works.
Gateway To the Commonwealth - project between artists and local community.
A Found Paintings - exhibition of work by Ben Cook (Salford Quays, 0161 876 2000).
Bolton Art Gallery: Our Commonwealth; Our Home - celebration of Bolton's commonwealth links (Le Mans Crescent, 01204 332211).
Oldham Art Gallery: New art gallery's opening exhibitions.
Sussed - multi-disciplinary show on the theme of sustainable development.
Chandrika - exhibition of Silver jewellery from Jaipur.
Charles Lees collection of watercolours (Greaves St, Oldham (0161 911 4653).
Salford City Art Gallery:
Salford Art Club's 50th Annual Art exhibition. Over Looked At - photographs of Manchester and Salford by Neil Roland(Peel Park, Salford 0161 736 2649).
Stockport Art Gallery: Stockport Open Exhibition (Wellington Rd South, Stockport 0161 474 4453).
Turnpike Centre, Leigh: Jigar; Films by Alia Syed for whom this is her first gallery exhibition (Civic Square 01942 404469).
Wigan Drumcroon Gallery: Chasing Shadows - textile works spanning more than 20 years by Michael Brennand-Wood (Parsons Walk 01942 321840).
John McCombs' Gallery, Delph: Exhibition of people and Pennines (King Street, Delph 01457 87470).