09/01/2013
Fan Shi San, A Lecture Upon the Shadow @ Open Eye Gallery

Catch Them While You Can

A New Year is barely upon us but if you’re not careful you’re liable to miss out on some fine exhibitions doing the rounds… Post Liverpool Biennial 2012 you could be forgiven for...

08/01/2013
Melancholia, starring Kirsten Dunst

Winter Sparks Screenings

Running alongside a new exhibition, FACT have programmed a quartet of electrifying films to inspire… If you’ve popped into FACT lately, you’re probably aware of new exhibition Winter Sparks (read our review), inspired...

07/01/2013
Alexandre Burton's Impacts (2012), courtesy Brian Slater

Winter Sparks – Reviewed

FACT’s first post-Biennial show, would Winter Sparks prove illuminating?  Billed in the promo material as ‘a personal sound and light show’ which ‘turns away from … the museum as … white cube space’,...

07/01/2013
Movement, mime and music (courtesy BBC)

A New Sound: Delia Darlings

C James Fagan on Daphne Oram, The Radiophonic Workshop and Delia Derbyshire, electronic innovator… There’s something evocative about the name The Radiophonic Workshop that conjures up an image of people literally picking out radio-waves from...

07/01/2013
Life of Pi

Film Podcast #16: Life of Pi

Film Podcast #16: Life of Pi by The Double Negative on Mixcloud DW Mault reviews Ang Lee’s adventure drama Life of Pi. Based on the best-selling novel by Yann Martel, and from the...

07/01/2013
Melancholia, starring Kirsten Dunst

Culture Diary w/c 07-01-13

Monday – Guided Tours at Tate Liverpool 2.40pm @ Tate Liverpool FREE With changing, often blockbuster exhibitions during the year at Tate Liverpool, it’s often all too easy to focus on the big...