21/02/2014
Sophia Crilly, Walter Hopps, 2011 	   

Launch Pad: The Drawing Project

Emma Sumner appreciates how one artist is exploring drawing whilst utilising Castlefield Gallery’s new launching pad… Since its establishment in 1984, Castlefield Gallery has played a fundamental role in the development of emerging...

19/02/2014
Jamal Penjweny

Culture Diary w/c 17-02-2014

What’s hot this week? Our pick of the listings from around Liverpool and the rest of the UK… Wednesday — Saddam is Here Exhibition Preview 6-8pm @ IKON (Birmingham) — FREE “Saddam is here....

17/02/2014
Warpaint (image courtesy The Guardian)

Playlist: 10 Best Spring Gigs

Toby Hood compiles a mixtape of his favourite tracks from the best of this Spring’s touring indie musicians… With recent high winds and flooding, it might be hard to see the dawn of...

14/02/2014
Lars von Trier (image courtesy Christian Geisnaes)

In Profile: Lars von Trier

Infamous director Lars von Trier is back with “the least-sexy 4 hour portrayal of sex you’ll ever see.” Frederick Johnson looks at a complex man who loves to divide his audience… It’s easy to get...

12/02/2014
Langlands & Bell, Air Routes World Night, 2001. Diagrams, Holden Gallery

“A form imbued with symbolic potency”: Diagrams

Visiting Holden Gallery’s latest exhibition, Luke Healey analyses the ‘diagram’ through the prism of art, football (!) and pseudoscience… There’s a spartan feel to the current show at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Holden Gallery. Despite...

10/02/2014
Bruce Nauman, Harris Museum this Saturday

Culture Diary w/c 10-02-2014

What’s hot this week? Our pick of the listings from around Liverpool and the rest of the UK… Monday – Movies On The Mezz #4: Blade Runner (Final Cut) 7pm @ The Kazimier Garden —...

10/02/2014
A group of Bongwonga rubber workers

Exposing the Congo

James West unearths the horrifying truth behind colonial brutality and sees how photography became a powerful catalyst in the campaign for human rights… This powerful exhibition, Brutal Exposure: the Congo, currently on show...

07/02/2014
Rhys Chatham, A Crimson Grail, Liverpool Biennial 2012

Give It Everything You’ve Got

Responding to yesterday’s massive funding cuts, and ahead of the International Festival of Business 2014, Laura Brown argues that we need a whole new approach to arts giving in Liverpool, otherwise we risk losing...

06/02/2014
Kraftwerk: Uncovered A Future Past, Liverpool Philharmonic

Kraftwerk Uncovered: A Future Past

Nathan Richardson expects a tribute to Kraftwerk and instead discovers an evening of roaring, mesmeric experimentation… “What’s past is Prologue” — William Shakespeare. It is perhaps not much of an icebreaker when Icebreaker, the 12-piece...