Culture Diary w/c 30-06-2014
What’s hot this week? Our pick of the listings from around Liverpool and the rest of the UK… Monday – Generation: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland @ various galleries across Scotland “An...
Liverpool’s Art Scene Now
Ahead of this week’s Biennial 2014 opening, ArtReview’s Oliver Basciano assesses Liverpool’s contemporary art offer, and wonders at the striking absence of new artist-run initiatives… Contemporary art – at least if we follow a...
In Profile: Lift to the Scaffold (1958)
Teenage angst, a will to belong and reckless love: George Jepson sees a lot for modern audiences to relate to in Louis Malle’s New Wave thriller… Somehow part of but distinctly separate from the...
Culture Diary w/c 23-06-2014
What’s hot this week? Our pick of the listings from around Liverpool and the rest of the UK… Tuesday – Both Sides Now — Film And Video From Hong Kong And China 6.30pm @...
In Pictures: Africa Oyé 2014
Pete Goodbody shares with us his photographic highlights from the UK’s largest, free African music festival… Africa Oyé attracted record crowds in Liverpool’s Sefton Park this year; partly because of the weather, but it...
In Conversation: Katie Cuddon And Celia Hempton
Curator Ceri Hand talks to Pontoon Lip artists Katie Cuddon and Celia Hempton about Rome, wobbly sculptures and sexual psychology… Cell Project Space is a self-supporting gallery and event space based in East London, founded...
The Big Interview: Carlos Cruz-Diez
His team call him The Maestro; a 91-year-old figurehead in the kinetic-optic art movement who has fundamentally changed our perception of colour. As he unveils a major new commission in Liverpool, we find out what makes Carlos...
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014 — Reviewed
Jay Bernard finds an alternative exploration of technology, truth and storytelling at this year’s provocative documentary festival… I ended my preview piece for Sheffield Doc/Fest with a question about truth — what it is, how to...
Irresistible Illustration: Stanley Chow’s Takeaway
Emma Sumner quizzes the MacDonalds illustrator about celebrity portraits, big screen avatars and his current retrospective ‘takeaway’ exhibition… An illustrator and artist with clients all over the world, you might be surprised to...