Self-confessed sci-fi nerd C James Fagan enters FACT’s new exhibition with high expectations, and leaves feeling somewhat deflated… This is going to be hard. Sometimes when the subject matter is close to your heart,...
Whistler, dazzleships, cartoons and a memorial to Hillsborough: Liverpool Biennial announces this year’s programme of events… Decipher the title as you will — something about artists disrupting their own habitats? — but the...
Floppy disks, fossils and the fallibility of new technologies: Stephen Clarke explores the work of Robin Tarbet… The ancient city of Pompeii lay dormant for nearly fifteen hundred years concealed under layers of lapilli...
Don’t know where to start at the GI? Don’t panic! Emma Sumner picks her highlights… Hailed by Adrian Searle as “the UK’s best visual arts festival”, the pressure is on for what will...
Head Hayward Gallery Curator Cliff Lauson talks to Oli Rahman about working with Tracey Emin, being persistent and making exhibitions that matter… My first experience of the Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery consisted of...
Emma Sumner finds out more about Castlefield’s impressive expansion, and why it’s more important than ever to provide artists with affordable work space… Castlefield Gallery has a real knack for developing emerging creative talent in the north-west....
Joseph Viney finds that Milller’s 1953 play has as much to say about a world of growing religious fundamentalism and ‘trial by media’ as it does the McCarthy witch trials era… Accusations of anti-intellectualism,...
Tate Liverpool’s Exhibitions and Displays Curator Darren Pih explains the ‘dirty avant-garde’ thinking behind Richard Hawkins’ new show… Since emerging in the early 1990s, Richard Hawkins has evolved an emphatically diverse practice that defies easy categorisation. Working...
Chinese journalist Joe Zhu shares a fascinating glimpse into the big business of studying art in Hangzhou city… When Walter Benjamin wrote about art and reproduction, I wonder if he had thought about...