Oscar-nominated short film and powerful photography highlight the modern-day, global reality of slavery, finds James West… One of the most common complaints directed at the International Slavery Museum (ISM), based in Liverpool, is that the institution’s representation...
OK Computer: Assistant Curator Stephanie Straine talks us through her favourite works in Tate Liverpool’s brand new (and free) national collection show… Promising more than 150 iconic artworks from the 20th and 21st century — including...
Sam Meech thanks ‘older brothers, slack parenting and the video shop’ for introducing him to a master of the horror genre: a director who made cinematic and commercial re-incarnation his stock-in-trade… This morning I awoke from a...
What’s hot this week? Our pick of the listings from around Liverpool and the rest of the UK… Tuesday – Scalarama Liverpool Launch And Film Jam 6.30-11pm @ A Small Cinema, Liverpool –...
How can Pop Art be redefined for the 21st century? Deb Laing finds Liverpool-based artists inspired by Black American culture trying to do just that at a special exhibition for Liverpool International Music Festival (LIMF)…...
Music entrepreneur and Liverpool International Music Festival curator Yaw Owusu talks to Toby Hood about being the new kid on the block, linking Liverpool to South Africa, and his love for everything from Tupac and...
A powerful and significant spotlight on today’s young filmmakers: Toby Hood reviews a collaborative book from Curzon and Faber & Faber on the directors and producers who are redefining British cinema… An ambitious title in its broad scope,...
As they prepare their last experimental arts show of 2015 — a play entitled The Happy Jug — Syndrome talk to C. James Fagan about Proust, the human condition, and replacing actors with concrete...
How do we understand our relationship with our rural peripheries? Sue Flowers considers a mix of creative responses to the British countryside at the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, and finds stereotype and complexity hung side-by-side… On...