This Thursday sees the opening night of the Liverpool Art Prize 2013. We talk to one of those shortlisted, Julieann O’Malley … With her work encompassing live durational performance installations, video work, sound...
Last week C James Fagan went to greet an old friend at the Bluecoat. He hoped they’d still get on… Ever found yourself in a situation where you’re about to meet an old...
Meet the new Artist of the Month, master collaborator and Renaissance Man, Jon Barraclough… It’s mid-afternoon and we’re sat in a beautiful – ornate but lived in – study. The feeling of being...
Mark Leckey trys to explain the ‘aboriginal shudder’, and the origins of The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things… The current show-stopping exhibition at the Bluecoat is the first major project in Liverpool for Turner Prize winning artist...
C James Fagan heads North to a city with a burgeoning art scene, one playing host to the Northern Arts Prize… Not for the first time in my life I find myself on...
DW Mault catches up for a chat with a master documentarian of the city, photographer Mark McNulty… Every street needs its chroniclers, every town its poets and every city the wake up call to itself....
A chance visit to a performance piece at the Bluecoat gets Mikey Stevenson thinking about the murky world of emotional outsourcing… I noticed a pattern forming in my behavior recently. I’ve amassed an...
For the latest exhibition at The Royal Standard, co-curators Andrew Bracey and John Rimmer take the world of film as inspiration… When we arrive at the Royal Standard, we creep in, running...
A new production at the Playhouse is a show dead-set on pleasing all of the people all of the time. Is it a success? Demonisation of children and a scurrilous tabloid press in...