Confusing and ultimately unfulfilling? Laura Robertson leaves this year’s Liverpool Biennial remembering a handful of beautiful and thought-provoking pieces, yet feeling that the whole thing never really comes together… We feel like we’ve...
C James Fagan on why anyone would want to be an art critic, and perhaps more importantly, why criticism is needed at all… What is the point of criticism? Why be an Art...
Should an arts festival directly reference the city it calls home? Can art become relevant to a context in which it is displayed? Richard Whitby examines one artwork in this year’s Liverpool Biennial that has a lot to say,...
This year’s Liverpool Biennial is the first that director Sally Tallant can really call her own, having arrived in Liverpool only a few months before the 2012 festival. Now with a new, earlier...
Sci-fi continues to inspire the arts, and you can’t switch TV channels without seeing Dr Who or Brian Cox. So is science finally cool? Joseph Viney asks a CERN scientist… This Friday marks the...
Ahead of this week’s Biennial 2014 opening, ArtReview’s Oliver Basciano assesses Liverpool’s contemporary art offer, and wonders at the striking absence of new artist-run initiatives… Contemporary art – at least if we follow a...
Curator Ceri Hand talks to Pontoon Lip artists Katie Cuddon and Celia Hempton about Rome, wobbly sculptures and sexual psychology… Cell Project Space is a self-supporting gallery and event space based in East London, founded...
His team call him The Maestro; a 91-year-old figurehead in the kinetic-optic art movement who has fundamentally changed our perception of colour. As he unveils a major new commission in Liverpool, we find out what makes Carlos...
Sex dolls, The Sooty Show and super 8: Richard Whitby gets sucked into a nightmarish version of children’s TV in Nottingham’s newest arts space… Featuring works by Jennet Thomas, Paul Tarragó and Leo Chadburn...