Charline von Heyl: Now or Else
Come with us as we take a guided tour around Tate Liverpool’s latest exhibition, as seen through the eyes of the artist… It seems to us Tate Liverpool’s current artist in residence is...
Artist of the Month:
Hannah Bitowski
Hannah Bitowski’s artwork is beautiful. It is deceptively loose and smudgy, almost childlike in its depictions of bearded and tattooed ladies, Mexican wrestlers, pagan icons. Look harder and her drawings, stitch-work and prints...
My Five New Friends – Reviewed
Linda Pitwood on an exhibition blurring the lines between Facebook friends, stalkers, and stalkees…. There are, in effect, two exhibitions currently showing in The Royal Standard’s unheated but perfectly formed gallery space. One...
Mark Leckey: Work and Leisure
We chat to the Turner Prize winning artist Mark Leckey about northerness, infamy and the Liverpool Biennial… Mark Leckey is not really ready to be interviewed. Sleeves rolled up and kneeling on the...
Painting’s Not Dead: Charline von Heyl
There’s a new exhibition opening at Tate Liverpool this week, and shhh, it features a living painter… It’s fitting perhaps that in the lead-up to this year’s John Moores Painting Prize, Tate Liverpool...
No Map for This Territory
Ahead of the Bluecoat’s forthcoming exhibition entitled Topophobia, C James Fagan attempts to plot a course through the fraught landscape of the 21st century… Where do you come from? It sounds like an...
What Price Culture?
Kenn Taylor takes a considered look at what an increasing commodification of culture means to a city… On a preserved section of the Berlin Wall, specifically the East Side Gallery, now used as...
A Private Affair: Personal Collections of Contemporary Art
Linda Pittwood visits Preston’s Harris Museum & Gallery and asks: what art could you live with and revisit day after day? Fighting the Friday night traffic to escape from Liverpool, we battle through...
TEDxMerseyside – The New Futurism
C James Fagan ponders the wisdom in debates around The New Futurism. Around since the 80s, TED began life as a conference bringing people together from the worlds of technology, entertainment and design....