29/11/2019

Cui Jie: From Pavilion to Space Station – Reviewed

An exhibition addressing how shifts in architectural style reflect national identity, Cui Jie’s From Pavilion to Space Station’s small scale belies its big ideas, finds Mike Pinnington… What can architecture tell us about a...

25/11/2019

“A New Type of Exploitation.” Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You – Reviewed

As evidenced by his latest outing Sorry We Missed You, director Ken Loach has lost none of his instinct for urgent, humane cinema, finds Mike Pinnington…  Come the closing scene of Ken Loach’s latest...

22/11/2019

Who is the city for? – Sara Jaspan Meets The Neighbours

With asylum seekers moved out of increasingly exclusive city centres and affordable housing targets going unmet, Sara Jaspan reports on an artists’ project engaging with the changing face of developing neighbourhoods… “I felt...

19/11/2019

Making the Mundane Enigmatic – Niall McDiarmid’s Southwestern

The American Road Trip localised to a small corner of England: Stephen Clarke reflects on photographer Niall McDiarmid’s latest photo book, Southwestern… In the opening picture (below) of Niall McDiarmid’s book Southwestern, a...

14/11/2019

They Live: A Visual and Cultural Awakening

An exhibition and book celebrate the legacy of They Live, director John Carpenter’s Reaganism allegory, but how does it stand up in our supposedly satire-proof times? Mike Pinnington investigates… When I first watched...

15/10/2019

“There is no one ‘Spirit of the North’” – The Return of the Portico Prize

What, if such a thing exists, is the ‘spirit of the North’? Joe Fenn on the vexed question, and return of the Portico Prize, which asks its entrants to capture exactly that…  A...

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Field Trip: Nantes, France – Où est Steve?

On a recent visit to Nantes to see Voyage à Nantes and the ‘Island of Machines’, the more sinister story of a missing man unfolds, reports Denise Courcoux… I first saw it as...

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Playlist: J.D. XXVII.: Mixtapes of Keith Haring

Artist Patrick Staff has spent a year in Keith Haring’s archives listening to mixtapes – made for Haring by friends, and by his lover, DJ Juan Dubose. Ahead of a dedicated five hour ‘deep listening’ jam...

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05/09/2019
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Present Tense (2019) // Paperback // £14.99

Present Tense A decade since Liverpool EU Capital of Culture… What now?  Edited by Laura Robertson and Mike Pinnington ISBN 978-1-5272-4281-4 Published August 2019. Very limited edition run of 250 copies. Paperback, 96...

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