Another Dimension – On Contemporary Drawing
“Drawing deserves our consideration and attention. It always did.” Mike Pinnington on the ongoing elevation of a medium… Drawing. It’s something we all do, until we don’t. When asked, all too early, to...
Culture Diary w/c 28-07-2025
Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond… Monday – Continuing: Liverpool Biennial 2025: BEDROCK – FREE The 13th edition of Liverpool Biennial continues across the city and the...
Carreg Ateb: Vision or Dream? Reviewed
Continuing a run of superb exhibitions, Mostyn Gallery in Llandudno hosts Jeremy Deller’s ode to Welsh culture. Laura Robertson finds echoes of and reverie in many versions of the past, a playful and...
A Singular Vision: Powell and Pressburger
With their celebrated masterpiece The Red Shoes currently showing on the big screen, Mike Pinnington considers the films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger… When I think about the moments of movie magic...
Culture Diary w/c 21-07-2025
Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond… Monday – Continuing: Liverpool Biennial 2025: BEDROCK – FREE The 13th edition of Liverpool Biennial continues across the city and the...
Culture Diary w/c 14-07-2025
Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond… Monday – Exhibition Continues: Drawing (Paper) Show 2025 @ The Bridewell Studios & Gallery – FREE Drawing – so often erroneously seen...
Palestinian Storytelling, World-Building, and Time Travel: Our Preview of Liverpool Arab Arts Festival (LAAF) 2025
The latest Liverpool Arab Arts Festival arrives this Friday. Here, Mike Pinnington takes a trip through some of 2025′s not-to-be-missed highlights… Just like that, we’re well into July, and Liverpool’s cultural calendar continues...
Culture Diary w/c 07-07-2025
Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond… Monday – Mars Express 5.40pm @ FACT Liverpool – £9.84 Ostensibly the tale of a notorious hacker and a missing...
Pavements – Reviewed
Biopic, mock-doc, juke box musical, exhibition? Mike Pinnington considers director Alex Ross Perry’s documentary, Pavements… Ambivalent, ironic, alienating. There is a prolonged moment at the beginning of director Alex Ross Perry’s documentary, Pavements, where...