29/01/2020
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Time & Space: On Being a Gallery Invigilator

“You are both a font and a target.” Stephen Curtis reflects on his time as a gallery assistant, which affords philosophical freedom while also making you a magnet for the pedantic, and those...

27/01/2020
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Culture Diary w/c 27-01-2020

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 – Continuing: Manchester...

24/01/2020
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The Reliquary of the (Late) 20th century: Mark Leckey’s O’ Magic Power of Bleakness

What happens when a totem of working class life and culture is recreated in an elite palace for art? Kenn Taylor reflects on Mark Leckey’s journey from Wirral underpass to the pinnacle of...

24/01/2020
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The Devil is in the Detail: Anj Smith @ MOSTYN Gallery – Reviewed

Feral landscapes and Anthropocene detritus combine to deliver a fearsome dose of future shock in an exhibition of Anj Smith’s paintings at MOSTYN gallery, finds Mike Pinnington… The devil is in the detail, they...

12/01/2020
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Culture Diary w/c 13-01-2020

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 – Day for...

06/01/2020
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A Waking Dream – Rebecca Allen’s The Observer

What’s a video-game without its heroes and villains, guns or explosions? Mike Pinnington investigates The Observer, Rebecca Allen’s ‘moving painting’, currently part of an exhibition at FACT Liverpool…  In both scale and depth,...

06/01/2020
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Culture Diary w/c 06-01-2020

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 – Saad Qureshi: Something...