25/07/2014
Little Girl Giant courtesy Chris Pennington

Liverpool, Land Of The Giants

Is the Giant Spectacular great art? And how does it compare to other public art in the city? Mark Evans on the power of the unifying moment… Today Liverpool officially welcomes back the Giants.  French...

24/07/2014
The Physical Possibility of Inspiring Imagination in the Mind of Somebody Living, Walter Hugo & Zoniel, 2014, Toxteth, Liverpool

Something Extraordinary: Jellyfish Toxteth

What’s happening on your street? Volunteer James Worley shares his experience of invigilating one of Liverpool Biennial’s most mysterious and popular fringe events… Something out of the ordinary is happening every evening in...

24/07/2014
Designival 2014

How To Define Success? Designival 2014 — Reviewed

What do top designers include in their recipe for success? Architect Matthew Ashton goes to this year’s Designival to find out… How to define success… Integrity? Turnover? Satisfaction with your surroundings, process, or clients? This question...

23/07/2014
The Lemon Collective

Why We Need Grassroots Art: My Experience With The Lemon Collective

Chris Carr defends and promotes the grassroots arts movement in Liverpool, under the threat of increasing urban redevelopment and commerce… Liverpool is a city that has, for a long time, been in the...

21/07/2014
Ribbons, Ed Atkins, Serpentine Sackler Gallery / Exhibition 2014

“This is highly finished, ambitious work”: Ed Atkins At The Serpentine

After hearing strong and polarized reviews from friends, Linda Pittwood visits the Serpentine’s new digital installation and finds something genuinely original… Sometimes I suspect that the art that I like isn’t necessarily the art...

18/07/2014
Stealing Sheep (c) Tate Liverpool_web.jpeg

Stealing Sheep: Blueprint for Success

Prepare yourself for a weekend celebrating art, music, dance and performance across Liverpool. Getting proceedings underway with a bang, the Blueprint Festival welcomes indie-folk darlings, Stealing Sheep to the party… Tate Collective’s Sumuyya...

18/07/2014
PUPILA ESTUDIO Costa Rica, 326490 project

World Cup Clichés: Graphic Design’s Approach To Football

Should we be showing graphic designers the yellow card for producing the same kind of World Cup artwork? Ian Mitchell explores the visual clichés and asks: are designers manipulating them or being driven by...

16/07/2014
Whistler at The Bluecoat, The Peacock Room, Biennial 2014

Confusing And Ultimately Unfulfilling? Biennial 2014 – Reviewed

Confusing and ultimately unfulfilling? Laura Robertson leaves this year’s Liverpool Biennial remembering a handful of beautiful and thought-provoking pieces, yet feeling that the whole thing never really comes together… We feel like we’ve...

15/07/2014
Why Be A Critic? Image courtesy Kresge Art Museum. The initial focus of the gallery was to collect 19th and 20th century American art, but this was quickly abandoned because of donations that span all areas of art. Donations facilitated by MSU Art Department faculty member Charles Pollock (brother of Jackson Pollock), and his friend, art critic Clement Greenberg, expand the holdings of modern abstract painting.

Why Be A Critic?

C James Fagan on why anyone would want to be an art critic, and perhaps more importantly, why criticism is needed at all… What is the point of criticism? Why be an Art...

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