In offering international travel expenses, curatorial mentorships and commissions, Liverpool Biennial is giving artists based in the North just what they need. Jack Welsh speaks to the people involved about how more responsive relationships between...
Jacob Charles Wilson gets to grips with Ben River’s ‘labyrinthine’ film installations, and concludes that all stories, heard or read, are to some extent lies… The Whitworth Art Gallery’s recent renovation has revitalised...
Smoke signals, Afro-Portuguese dance and channelling J. G. Ballard: ahead of its launch, let Vanessa Wheeler guide you through the best and most unexpected parts of Manchester’s annual innovation festival… What do you get when a community of...
Emma Sumner is thrown headlong into a forum for experimental critical writing practices in Bangladesh. But how would the issues faced by those actively working in the field of critical writing be discussed?...
Grace Harrison looks at the results and repercussions of a public artwork never made, echoing the stalled, ongoing regeneration plans for Anfield, Liverpool… Much of the work of the artist Jayne Lawless strives to...
A new exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary brings together the largest ever selection of Yugoslav art in the UK from the ‘golden years’ of the Socialist Federal Republic. What emerges, finds Bob Dickinson, is a witty,...
Combining clever forethought with mythology and modern physics, Vanessa Wheeler explores AL and Al’s new exhibition at HOME, Manchester; that takes you back — and forward — in time… Astronomy meets astrology currently...
An unassuming Southport beach in the hands of artist David Jacques becomes the battleground for a social and cultural negotiation, finds Les Roberts… Edges can be many things. They can be sharp (in that they incise...
What does it take to create a magazine from scratch? Laura Robertson collected some insider secrets — from The Gourmand, The White Review, Dazed and magCulture – at one of the first ever Frieze Academy courses…...