05/03/2015
The Well, a multi-sensory performance by Korless & Emmanuel Biard, FutureEverything

Subverting Surveillance And Corporate Control: FutureEverything 2015 — Reviewed

Another year older, another year wiser? Sara Jaspan finds a troubling prognosis of digital culture at the 20th edition of FutureEverything festival… Like any milestone birthday, the 20th anniversary of FutureEverything festival seems...

03/03/2015
Johnnie Shand Kydd, The Whitworth Redevelopment

The Big Interview: Johnnie Shand Kydd

As he unveils a series of candid portraits of international art figures at play in 1990s Greece — including Tracey Emin, Gary Hume and Grayson Perry – we speak to Johnnie Shand Kydd about responsible image making,...

02/03/2015
Pompidou -- Malik Thomas

Artist of the Month: Malik Thomas

The devil is in the detail: our new Artist of the Month is as skilled at intricate architectural drawing as he is at sensitively rendered portraits. Laura Robertson catches up with the young designer at...

02/03/2015
Thursday -- tUnE-yArDs 7.30-10pm @ Anglican Cathedral, Liverpool — £15

Culture Diary w/c 02-03-2015

What’s hot this week? Our pick of the listings from around Liverpool and the rest of the UK… Monday — Think Cinema Presents: The Blood Of A Poet (1930) 6.30-10pm @ Frederik’s Bar,...

25/02/2015
GoGo Penguin

Liverpool International Jazz Fest — Our Highlights

With jazz infiltrating and influencing contemporary genres — everything from psychedelia to electronica — what better moment to celebrate its diversity, says Christopher Brown… There was an almost depressing number of shrugged shoulders when the Mercury Music...

24/02/2015
PICK OF THE WEEK: Saturday – Last Day: Grace Schwindt: Only a Free Individual Can Create a Free Society  11am-5.30pm @ Site Gallery, Sheffield – FREE

Culture Diary w/c 23-02-2015

What’s hot this week? Our pick of the listings from around Liverpool and the rest of the UK… Monday – Hross I Oss (2013) 7:45pm @ Gustaf Adolf Nordic Church, Liverpool – donation...

19/02/2015
Trade Tattoo, Len Lye. GB 1937. Courtesy of the Len Lye Foundation and The British Postal Museum and Archive. From material preserved and made available by the New Zealand Film Archive Ngā Kaitiaki O Ngā Taonga Whitiāhua

Send And Receive: Poetry, Film And Technology In The 21st Century

Film meets poetry meets technology: as FACT’s Type Motion exhibition draws to a close, Jay Bernard assesses the changing perception of poetry in an ever increasing digital age… By chance, I caught Helvetica...

18/02/2015
Whitworth Art Gallery -- image by David Levene

The Big Interview: Cornelia Parker

Linda Pittwood catches up with the star of the reopened Whitworth Art Gallery about revisiting war and violence in her work, her relationships with power women, and why she’ll never stop collaborating… Linda Pittwood:...

16/02/2015
Tuesday — Discover Tuesdays: Love Is All: 100 Years Of Love And Courtship (2014) 6pm @ FACT, Liverpool and other Picturehouse Cinemas nationwide

Culture Diary w/c 16-02-2015

What’s hot this week? Our pick of the listings from around Liverpool and the rest of the UK… Monday — The War On Drugs 7.30pm @ o2 Academy, Liverpool — sold out Topping many...