Culture Diary w/c 12-05-2025
Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond… Monday – Last Chance to See: Daniel Halsall: Beauty on Paper @ Hamilton Vault Studios, Birkenhead – FREE Colour, line, and...
“A profound sense of belonging”: Małgorzata Mirga-Tas @ The Whitworth – Reviewed
In Manchester’s Whitworth gallery, the Polish-Roma artist showcases textiles and paintings previously seen at Tate St Ives. Maja Lorkowska considers an exhibition inspired by religious iconography that rejects cliché or exoticism of Roma life…...
Culture Diary w/c 05-05-2025
Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond… Monday – Exhibition Continues (until 12 May): Daniel Halsall: Beauty on Paper @ Hamilton Vault Studios, Birkenhead – FREE...
Reading the Gallery:
On Art & Text
“Words, text, art, text art, artists’ text, art writing.” Mike Pinnington on the intersection of and relationship between art and text… When we speak about art, we often refer to the ‘story’ of...
Culture Diary w/c 28-04-2025
Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond… Monday – After Hours 8pm (and tomorrow 4.50pm) @ FACT Liverpool – £8.50 Starring Griffin Dunne as a fish...
Vanessa da Silva: Roda Viva @ Mostyn Gallery – Reviewed
“A joyous, life-affirming show.” Mike Pinnington finds much to celebrate in the Brazilian rhythms of Vanessa da Silva’s exhibition, Roda Viva, at Mostyn Gallery… The temptation to weave between the free-hanging panels and eventually...
Ding Yi: Between Prediction and Retrospection @ Mostyn Gallery
– Reviewed
“Opportunities to engage with names other than the movement’s usual suspects are all too rare.” Mike Pinnington on a close encounter with the geometric abstraction of Ding Yi… When we think about abstraction...
The Big Interview: Neil Griffiths, CEO & Co-Founder of Arts Emergency
To mark their recent smash success with the Big Give appeal, Laura Robertson speaks to Arts Emergency CEO Neil Griffiths about why it’s absolutely essential to keep on advocating for working-class kids –...
Veronica Watson:
All Together Now
“A feeling, a period, a mood.” Mike Pinnington on Veronica Watson, whose portraits – celebrated in new publication All Together Now – currently adorn the Bluecoat’s upstairs gallery… What does it mean to...