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Survival Is Insufficient:
Humanity After The End

28/04/2023

What makes us human? What, in the face of end times catastrophe, helps keep us that way? Mike Pinnington considers two recent examples of post-apocalypse drama, with mixed results…  Warning: Expect spoilers relating...

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We’ll Miss You, Pete: Honouring Photographer Peter Goodbody

24/04/2023

We were devastated to learn of the recent passing of our friend and contributor, Pete Goodbody: photographer and cultural philanthropist. Pete, or P3dro, was a talented photographer and writer with a keen interest...

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Kathryn Maple: Under a Hot Sun – Reviewed

18/04/2023

“I wouldn’t paint the walls in my house pink, green and brown, so why do these hues work so well here?” Kathryn Maple’s aptly titled exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery resonates with...

Image credit: Andrii Dostliev, Lia Dostlieva, Fairy Castles of Donetsk, 2018–2020

Callout For New Photography Criticism! ‘HOME’: Ukrainian Photography Inspiring UK Words // Deadline Sunday 30 April 2023

17/04/2023

Writers wanted! To celebrate Eurovision 2023, Open Eye Gallery, The Double Negative and ArtReview collaboratively invite writers from the Liverpool City Region to pitch article ideas. Co-published across The Double Negative and ArtReview,...

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Fanchon Fröhlich: The Wrong Sex – Reviewed

02/03/2023

In the clamour to redress the balance of art history, some will inevitably continue to slip through the cracks. But a new retrospective exhibition suggests that an until now overlooked artist is worthy...

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Probably Just A Wrong Number: On Kirsty Harris’ Cold Call

17/02/2023

In an essay excerpted from the catalogue for Two Plus Two Makes Four – an exhibition ‘rooted in the lived experience of mental illness’ – Mike Pinnington responds to anxieties found in the...

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Rachel Goodyear: Stirrings – Reviewed

16/02/2023

“The spirit of surrealism is alive and well.” Mike Pinnington on Rachel Goodyear’s Stirrings, an exquisite exhibition of drawings and animation at Salford Museum & Art Gallery…  “I began to read the surrealists...

Horace Lindezey, Alice Merida Richards and Dominic Pillai, Falling; A Memory of Her, 2022. Image ©Michael Pollard-web

Venture Arts: NARRATIVES – Reviewed

10/02/2023

“A convincing argument for collaboration.” Mike Pinnington on Venture Arts’ new exhibition, NARRATIVES, at Salford’s waterside Lowry gallery… We cling stubbornly to the romantic cliché that an artist toils away in solitude day...

Lakwena Maciver, A green and pleasant land (HA-HA), installation view at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 2022. Courtesy the artist and Vigo Gallery, London. Photo © Jonty Wilde, courtesy Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Lakwena Maciver’s A green and pleasant land (HA-HA) – Reviewed

09/02/2023

Who’s laughing at who? Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou finds poetry, beauty and manifold meanings in Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s new exhibition… The taxi turns into the expansive grounds of Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) and my eye catches...

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