14/07/2025
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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...

08/07/2025
Nour Bishouty and Ghassan Bishouty, 0°, 0° (1981-83, 2022). Courtesy of Gallery 44 and SAVAC, Toronto Canada. Photography by Darren Rigo.

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...

07/07/2025
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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...

07/07/2025
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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...

04/07/2025
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“I’m trying to remove the structure of being watched.” In Conversation with Performance Artist Lula Braimbridge

A recent graduate set to stage performances at Stockport Garrick Theatre in July, Manchester-based queer performance artist Lula Braimbridge talks to Anna Marsden about embracing nudity, discomfort and the gaze… Usually, when it comes to...

02/07/2025
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The City & the City: Ripped Backsides – Reviewed

“City as shadow, spectre, crucible.” With Ripped Backsides, author Richard Cabut invites us on a free-wheeling trip through noir cities, finds Mike Pinnington… In Richard Cabut’s Ripped Backsides – aptly named for Iggy Pop’s The...

30/06/2025
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Culture Diary w/c 30-06-2025

Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond… Monday – Exhibitions Continue: @ The Atkinson, Southport – FREE A trio of shows currently grace Southport’s Atkinson. The Magic of...

26/06/2025
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Simulacra and the City:
Stephen Clarke’s New York 1995–1996

Askance tales of a storied city, New York 1995–1996 is photographer Stephen Clarke’s record of a “brief moment” that nevertheless offers up a multi-lens cultural reckoning… It’s the city that never sleeps; the...

23/06/2025
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Liverpool Biennial 2025: BEDROCK – Reviewed

Tracking a philosophical line across the city, Mike Pinnington reports on drifting purposefully through the 13th edition of Liverpool Biennial… Liverpool Biennial 2025: BEDROCK, proposes, says director Sam Lackey, to explore and expose the city’s...

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