Dunst, Dreamers And Drones: The Double Negative Awards 2015
We have asked our critics to name their cultural winners of 2015: who will make the cut? What to say about a year where The Double Negative discussed shame with Jon Ronson? Watched...
“There’s something rejuvenating about getting a good fright…” The Big Interview: Chipo Chung
Last seen on our cinema screens, plus Sky and BBC, and now at the Liverpool Playhouse with The Haunting of Hill House, actress Chipo Chung speaks to Jack Roe about her craft, the empowering...
An Invitation To Terror: The Haunting Of Hill House –Reviewed
David L. Rattigan enjoys a sense of unearthly dread thanks to Liverpool’s Everyman & Playhouse — currently hosting the warped, winding corridors of Hill House… While you might leave behind one or two of the...
Is This Real? Does It Matter? Follow — Reviewed
Exploring a core level of curiosity in the human experience, FACT’s new — and now viral — exhibition Follow will make you question what contemporary reality actually means, finds Laura Robertson… What’s real? Is...
We Called Shia LaBeouf’s New Hotline And This Is What Happened
What happens when Hollywood superstar turned contemporary artist Shia LaBeouf runs a telephone hotline? C. James Fagan called to find out… There’s something strange going on… well, strange is the wrong word. Unusual...
All The World’s A Stage: Social Media, Performance And ‘Authenticity’
If a life offline isn’t the path to real life, then what is? Ahead of FACT’s new exhibition about social media, Amy Jones analyses the concept of authenticity through the prism of celebrity...
Introducing: About Time, Leeds
Collaboration, collaboration, collaboration: some of the best and brightest independent art spaces in Leeds are joining forces to highlight their work. It’s About Time, says Jade French… Leeds is buzzing. The influential British Art...
Do It Yourself! The Big Interview: Assemble
Ahead of Monday’s Turner Prize winner announcement, Emma Sumner speaks to one of the nominees: an architectural collective who have been working very closely with Liverpool’s most determined community… The first thing anyone visiting...
Bill Murray And Modern Existence, Examined: Baltic’s Two New Exhibitions — Reviewed
Laura Harris finds new exhibitions by Brian Griffiths and B. Wurtz dally with the driftwood of modern existence, yet fluctuate between excellence and mediocrity… Clad in a garish green checked blazer, a giant...