The Seditious Potential Of The Smile: Me_asure
Ahead of their commission launch and artist talk at FACT tonight, we catch up with Culture Lab’s Tom Schofield and John Bowers about the dangers of categorising people, tech politics and Big Brother…...
Breathing New Life Into Experimental Practice — Immix Ensemble
Launching with Ex Easter Island Head and composer Joseph Hillyard, Jon Davies finds a new ensemble loaded with openness and charm… Although Liverpool’s performing music calendar can never be accused of a lack of...
Introducing: Be A Critic’s Oliver Basciano
We are thrilled to announce that Art Review’s Oliver Basciano will be the first to lead our #BeACritic campaign. Basciano, who has been Managing Editor at ArtReview for three years, will be commissioned...
Grand Designs — Friends Of The Flyover
Can we really build our own city? Laura Brown talks to Kate Stewart from the Flyover project about why this might be the first step towards urban planning that’s healthy, happy and designed by...
Culture Diary w/c 12-05-14
What’s hot this week? Our pick of the listings from around Liverpool, the North-West and the rest of the UK… Tuesday – Spring Awakening 7.30pm @ the Playhouse, Liverpool — £12-£21 When Frank Wedekind’s...
Turner Prize 2014 — The Lowdown
Oli Rahman shares his thoughts on the infamous prize and this year’s relatively unknown artists… The Turner Prize has launched the careers of some of the biggest heavyweights in the British Art Scene over the past...
The Big Interview: Richard Hawkins
US artist Richard Hawkins talks about his obsession with bizarre Japanese choreographer Tatsumi Hijikata, and how it formed the basis of Tate Liverpool’s (soon-to-close) ground floor exhibition… How did you discover Hijikata? Ever...
In Profile: Ken Russell’s The Devils (1971)
Like your cult cinema weird, violent and controversial? Ahead of a screening at Cornerhouse, Adam Scovell explores Ken Russell’s most beautifully disturbing film… By the time maverick British director Ken Russell came to make...
Language As A Process of Free Creation: Keywords Discussions at Tate Liverpool
Head to Tate Liverpool this afternoon for a lively masterclass in words and meaning… Imagine Newsnight/Wright Stuff regular, journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, passionately discussing with you her interpretation of the word ‘Violence’, confiding in...