Culture Diary w/c 26-10-2015
What’s hot this week? Our pick of the arts — and Halloween — listings from around Liverpool and the rest of the UK… Monday – Made You Look (2015) + Q&A 6pm @...
Film How: Northern Soul / Factory — Reviewed
From finding the right shade of pink wool to knit the Clangers, to sourcing a catalogue of rare Northern Soul tracks: Kirsty Fitzpatrick hears from two design teams using Manchester’s resources to make...
You Should Be Honoured: Frustrations Of A Modern Day Arts Graduate
Would you pay $25,000 to do an internship at a top entertainment company? No, neither would Hannah McHaffie; here she looks at graduate expectations and asks: should it be an honour to work in the arts in...
From Miniature To Monumental… The Big Interview: Kristin McGuire
Recreating Hitchcock’s Psycho with paper and light, and changing the way we see nude statues forever: Deb Laing meets resident artist Kristin McGuire at the Williamson Gallery and Museum… Multi-award winning husband and...
Culture Diary w/c 19-10-2015
What’s hot this week? Our pick of the arts listings from around Liverpool and the rest of the UK… Monday — Exhibition Opening: Office Of Useful Art @ LJMU School Of Art And...
“Artists who don’t paint aren’t artists”: Top Five Artists’ Manifestos Of All Time
As Walter & Zoniel unveil their new manifesto, we take a look at how artist declarations have been inventing — and destroying — art movements since the 1900s… ‘The artists manifesto’, noted Alex Danchev, author...
Announcing A New Manifesto: Formationism (June 2015)
What would a manifesto for 2015 look like? According to Walter & Zoniel, it should encourage confidence in artists, sensory experiences in the visitor, and acknowledge the tension between theory and practice… We last saw London-based...
Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots And Glenn Ligon: Encounters And Collisions — Reviewed
Ahead of the exhibitions’ closing weekend, Alice Benbow looks again at what Ligon and Pollock — two American artists whose practices are separated by almost 40 years — have to say about the...
From San Diego To St Helens… Stephen Clarke’s End Of The Season
Cian Quayle inspects the home footage, black and white photography and hand-drawn maps that embody Stephen Clarke’s personal, family-orientated homage to seaside towns… Stephen Clarke has recently published a series of three books with...