In Pictures: The Chinese Art Factory
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...
Letizia Battaglia: Breaking the Code of Silence
Pete Goodbody explores photojournalist Battaglia’s world of blood, terror, and the resilience of ordinary Sicilians… It is a strange feeling to walk around this exhibition of photographs taken in Sicily during the ’70s and ’80s, and to recognise we...
Cool Girl Gang — The Launch of Queen of the Track Zine
Hold the phone. A new zine is hitting the market right now and its name is Queen of the Track… Described as “vogue on crack” by its creators Flis Mitchell (an artist and...
Please Come to the Show: Artist Invitations From The MoMA Library
Despite online competition from the likes of Facebook and Eventbrite, Maja Lorkowska realises that nothing compares to the art of the printed invite… LJMU’s Exhibiton Research Centre is currently home to Please Come...
Our next North-West Writers’ Meet & Greet
Writer? Blogger? Join us, Creative Tourist, Corridor8 and friends for our next meet and greet! We’ve long been of the mind that there’s strength in numbers. That having friends – rather than competitors...
Keywords, Raymond Williams and The Evolution of Language
What does ‘culture’ mean? And can art help us understand? Laura Robertson on a new exhibition exploring the ‘key’ words of the English language… “The fact is, they just don’t speak the same...
Martin Creed: What’s the point of it?
Sarah Creed visits her namesake’s new exhibition and finds a heady mix of crude humour, playfulness and exploration… I arrive at the Southbank on a cloudy Sunday morning, slightly disheveled by the drizzly weather, plus...
Launch Pad: The Drawing Project
Emma Sumner appreciates how one artist is exploring drawing whilst utilising Castlefield Gallery’s new launching pad… Since its establishment in 1984, Castlefield Gallery has played a fundamental role in the development of emerging...
“A form imbued with symbolic potency”: Diagrams
Visiting Holden Gallery’s latest exhibition, Luke Healey analyses the ‘diagram’ through the prism of art, football (!) and pseudoscience… There’s a spartan feel to the current show at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Holden Gallery. Despite...