Blackburn in Lancashire is rediscovering its ‘town centre mojo’, boasting a huge rise in manufacturing and a new festival dedicated to making. Sophie Skellern meets its artists and builders to find out why… Situated in...
What is a 21st century art centre? And what part do networks play in their futures? Alix Medlyn Davies goes to Lancaster to find out from artists, producers, social media tutors and ‘algoravers’… In a...
Love art and technology? Interested in virtual reality? We’ve invited one of the world’s most pioneering digital artists to share their story with you this October… The Double Negative are joining forces with...
What’s hot this week? Our pick of the arts listings from around Liverpool and the rest of the UK… Monday – Last Day: Eva Grubinger: Black Diamond Bay 6-8pm @ Institute Of Contemporary...
James West speaks to contemporary photographer Nyaba Ouedraogo about how (and why) his new exhibition is juxtaposed with museum objects taken from the Congo area during British colonial rule, and the controversy of the ‘African...
Poznan’s Malta Festival is a diverse and compelling experience set in a city with the same qualities, finds Emma Sumner… Crammed with castles, cathedrals and boasting two clockwork goats as its mascots, the Polish city...
Do artists based in the North of England have an inferiority complex? And what would Venice Biennale look like if it was based in Warrington? We find out from the lead curator of NORTH Contemporary, Will...
Denise Courcoux finds that the second iteration of Lynda Morris’s exhibition is both characteristic and symptomatic of a recent and turbulent history. But can its artists act as ‘moral agents’? “It is still...
Bizarre, chaotic and optimistic: Naomi Cull finds that banning the curator at Castlefield Gallery has a liberating and playful effect on the artists… What seems like a conventional group show — a selection of artists...