The Whitworth
Red-brick Jacobean-style art gallery set in a park, extended with glass wings reaching into the trees.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Whitworth in Manchester turns on one Saturday night in April 2003, when three paintings by Van Gogh, Picasso and Gauguin left the gallery without permission. It follows the anonymous phone call, the park behind the building, and a note whose purpose is still argued over. Best heard at the back of the gallery, looking out toward Whitworth Park.
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