Culture Diary w/c 09-11-2015
What’s hot this week? Our pick of the arts listings from around Liverpool and the rest of the UK… Tuesday – Palladian Striptease 7-8.40pm @ RIBA, London — £9/6.50 To coincide with their major new exhibition,...
What Is Good Design? Design How — Reviewed
Should user experience come at the expense of good design? And what is good design anyway? Phoebe Piper receives some unwelcome visions of the future at Design MCR festival… The coffee shop shelf: an everyday image...
Haunting Isolation And Lost Memories: Lesions In The Landscape — Reviewed
Ellie Woods sees an abandoned Scottish town through the eyes of an amnesiac at FACT’s current, discordant exhibition… Shona Illingworth wants us to experience the edge of the world. At least that’s what it feels like. Edging down...
Dispensing Art To All: Art Vend @ Oriel Wrecsam
Think you could make tiny artworks to sell from special vending machines? Oriel Wrecsam is looking for artists across the UK to do just that… Lucozade, jelly beans, bouncy balls, condoms… We’ve all...
Culture Diary w/c 02-11-2015
What’s hot this week? Our pick of the arts listings from around Liverpool and the rest of the UK… Tuesday — Gong 7.30pm @ The Kazimier, Liverpool — £17.50 An infamously eccentric prog-jazz ensemble...
“Frightening with its familiarity”: Shadow Worlds | Writer’s Rooms — Freud’s House Reviewed
Hannah Elizabeth Allan finds an uncanny domestic space at The International 3 gallery: where the familiar is transformed into the sinister… Overwhelming the small, white-walled gallery of International 3, a pair of large-scale screens display a...
Aesthetica Short Film Festival — Our Highlights
Astronauts, the grim reaper and the sex industry all play muse to a huge selection of short films at York’s annual homage to cinema, finds Jack Roe… On first impression, it seems the most prominent aspect...
Playlist: Liverpool Music Week (LMW)
As Texan Josh T. Pearson takes to the the stage tonight, Jack Roe makes a mixtape of all his favourite artists flocking to Liverpool for a city wide, week-long party… With a music scene...
Normal Rules Do Not Apply: The Realities Of Being A Live Artist
It is obvious from the passion displayed by its practitioners that live art is here to stay. If we can give artists in the North-West more moral and financial support, says Garry Cook,...