Culture Diary w/c 06-07-2015
What’s hot this week? Our pick of the listings from around Liverpool and the rest of the UK… Monday – Cooper Gallery Summer Residency 2015: Thingness? 10-5pm @ Cooper Gallery, Dundee – FREE...
Jennet Thomas’s THE UNSPEAKABLE FREEDOM DEVICE — Previewed
Deborah Laing looks forward to the Grundy’s new and provocative exhibition – a space for satirical encounters, discussion and performance… Experimental film and installation artist Jennet Thomas joins writers, critics, art historians, theorists and...
Paint, Activated: Castlefield Gallery’s Real Painting — Reviewed
On visiting Castlefield’s new show, Daniel McMillan finds artists that shed the illusory surface of painting in favour of the actuality of the ‘stuff’ from which it is comprised… “One must remember that writing...
Portrait Of An American Dream: Jackson Pollock & Glenn Ligon Revealed
Tate Liverpool’s summer show re-evaluates the archetypal heroic American artist, finds Laura Robertson; a presentation that wrestles with its tragic past and troubling present… Where is there to go once you’ve reached the top?...
“I like things that have a bit of texture and substance”: Robert Walker’s The Classics
Sara Jaspan meets the latest artist to grace the book-lined walls of the The Portico library in Manchester, and finds herself transported to city streets of a more sun-kissed variety… The Portico library is...
G. F. Smith Papers: 130 Years Of Excellence
As their new selecta, The Collection, is admired at design studios across the land, we take a peek behind the scenes at the G. F. Smith factory in Hull: a monument to quality,...
Culture Diary w/c 22-06-2015
What’s hot this week? Our pick of the listings from around Liverpool and the rest of the UK… Monday — MA Conservation Summer Show 6-9pm @ Camberwell Space, London — FREE A chance to enjoy...
“Two cities that relentlessly draw in and export talent”: LIV-BCN (Barcelona) — Reviewed
Alex Harrington enjoys Marnie, Univers and more at the first leg of this year’s LIV-BCN summer festival… A ship sliding along the horizon towards Barcelona and a ship on the Mersey heading for...
There Is A UK Innovation Revolution — But Not At London Tech Week
At London Technology Week, serial digital entrepreneur Laura Brown makes an entertaining yet compelling argument for us to look beyond the corporate gloss and consider the real drive behind the 21st century’s fastest growing economy…...