“As the midday sunshine streams through gallery windows, there is an almost tangible dread.” Mike Pinnington on finding the uncanny in the everyday subjects of Caroline Gorick’s After Hours… There’s something about small...
How often do we really examine curatorial contributions – not simply to an exhibition, but to the care and display of collections? Mike Pinnington considers ALL THAT REMAINS: A Curator’s Choice at Victoria Gallery & Museum…...
Illness meant that we missed the window to publish our usual pick of the week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond, but its fashionably late sibling, The Weekender,...
“What would Liverpool be without it?” On the eve of Liverpool Biennial 2025, C James Fagan ponders his sometimes complex, on-going relationship with the UK’s largest festival of contemporary art… It’s a Biennial...
“In a world that’s been gamified to within an inch of its life, maybe indulging in pixels, bits and bytes can be a subversive act.” Mike Pinnington on FACT Liverpool’s gaming symposium, Choose...
“A Biennial that could only be created in Liverpool.” Curated by Marie-Anne McQuay and bearing the reassuring subtitle, BEDROCK, 2025′s edition looks to be full of promise, says Mike Pinnington… You may have noticed...
As interdisciplinary as its other programmes, Photography MA students are experimenting with everything from analogue to neuroscience, fabrication and sculpture. Laura Robertson talks to their Professor of Art and Experimental Media, the artist James...
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…...
“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...