Culture Diary w/c 11-02-2019
Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from around the North of England and the rest of the UK – and loads of it’s free! Monday – Exhibition on Screen:...
“Art Kills in this Movie”: Velvet Buzzsaw – Reviewed
Dan Gilroy’s latest film Velvet Buzzsaw, which arrived on Netflix this week, finds room for high art and high camp amid some grizzly and inventive deaths, finds Mike Pinnington… Art world satire posing...
“Is ambient the soundtrack to our emotional and mental fatigue?” – Alien Sound Symposium
This weekend Tate Liverpool plays host to Alien Sound, a symposium exploring ambient noise and music. We spoke to organiser Jon Davies about something we might typically associate with relaxation, its development, and “the limits...
“A Skillful Reframing of Reality” Haroon Mirza @ Ikon Gallery – Reviewed
The most comprehensive staging of work by prolific artist Haroon Mirza in the UK so far, Emma Sumner finds an exhibition that suggests more needs to be done – and greater space made – when...
Remembering K-Punk: A Tribute To Mark Fisher
When Mark Fisher died in 2017, he left behind him a body of work now widely considered to be required reading. Here, Stephanie Gavan outlines how Fisher “inspired and informed a new generation...
A Desire To Be Seen and To Be Loved: Ren Hang
As his his first UK solo exhibition of photography, Wake Up Together, draws to a close, Laura Robertson takes another look at Ren Hang… What do you see when you look at Ren Hang’s portraits?...
Culture Diary w/c 04-02-2019
Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from around the North of England and the rest of the UK – and loads of it’s free! Monday – A Private...
The Big Interview: Stack Magazines Founder Steven Watson
Founded as a hobby, independent magazine subscription service Stack celebrates the medium in ways few others do. Fellow magazine aficionado Mike Pinnington caught up with Stack’s founder Steven Watson to get the lowdown...
Comment: Retrospective Age
The lifting of the age limit on Turner Prize nominees recently (previously restricted to artists 50 or under) was applauded and there has been something of an on-going trend for late-career recognition; a...