Culture Diary 31-07-2017
Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from around the UK – and most of it’s free! Monday — Life Undiluted Tour: Dr Lisa Pine 4—5pm @ Tate Liverpool...
“Nothing will stop me”: International LGBTQ+ Writers Share Their Stories
Andrew Wright speaks to the authors of What’s Your World Pride Story?: an anthology of real-life accounts by writers from across the globe, about love and solidarity, but also extreme violence, rejection, and...
Field Trip: Gosh! Is It Alive? ARKEN Museum Of Modern Art, Denmark
Why is it that hyperrealistic depictions of the human form are so unsettling? Pete Goodbody travels to Denmark to experience unnervingly realistic sculpture at ARKEN… Designed to resemble a beached ship, the ARKEN Museum of Modern Art...
Culture Diary w/c 24-07-2017
Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from around the UK – and most of it’s free! Tuesday – David Lynch: The Art Life (2016) 5.30pm @ Picturehouse At FACT,...
The Alchemy Between Us: How Artists Really Feel About Engagement
Do artists need other people to be artists? Artist Laurence Payot invited peers, including philosopher Yiota Vassilopoulou, to discuss audiences, echo-chambers, “engagement”, and a host of current issues at Tate Exchange, Liverpool, recently. The...
“To craft something so meaningful from such chaos is a remarkable achievement”: Dream English Kid — Reviewed
Mark Leckey’s current exhibition in Leigh visualises apocalyptic visions of the Cold War, to claustrophobic and joyous visions of club culture, finds Jack Roe… The Turnpike in Leigh is in a moment of transition....
Culture Diary w/c 17-07-2017
Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from around the UK – and most of it’s free! Tuesday – Mosquitoes 7.30pm @ Dorfman Theatre, National Theatre, London — SOLD...
“Art might be quite a ridiculous thing to be doing”: New Henge Heritage And The Reinvention of The Peterborough Stone
Unhenged? Wayne Burrows discusses folk traditions, belief systems and speculative evidence with the artists behind Metal Peterborough’s New Henge Heritage… There’s an episode of Father Ted where a senior cleric visits Craggy Island to...
Field Trip: Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina
Bob Dickinson takes a detailed tour of Bosnia Herzegovina’s capital and largest city: taking in a Biennial hosted in a bunker, its tunnels and old cinemas, its best bars, and even its 1984 Winter...