With the deadline fast approaching for nominations, Blog North Awards confirm their judging panel… On Friday, the judging panel for October’s Blog North Awards was announced, and it’s an impressive list. Much loved...
Opera di Peroni is the cunning plan to open the eyes and ears of people who would ordinarily just as soon be elsewhere. Rachael Jones wonders, did it work? The idea behind Opera...
Linda Pittwood visits one of Liverpool Biennial’s more ambitious community arts projects … Earlier in the year I escaped from the Sea Odyssey giants and the related monstrous crowds to visit 2up2down at their...
It’s that time again. The UK’s Biennial - a free feast of international contemporary art dotted all over the city – kicks off in Liverpool in just a few short weeks. Known for...
With the Biennial and John Moores painting prize around the corner, we consider how Liverpool and the rest of the region’s art output is served by the national media… As 2011 drew to...
We asked an artist, a novelist and an art director for their experience of keeping a roof over their heads while working in the arts… Since launching The Double Negative – and to...
Introducing our latest Artist of the Month, comic afficionado and illustrator Alice Duke … Illustrator, concept artist, graphic novel artist, comic artist … whatever Alice Duke calls herself, her skills are as impressive...
We all have our favourite writers and websites, the ones we read everyday. Now we can vote for their recognition… Pretty much everyone has access to a blog these days, right? Many of...
There are effigies of One Direction alight in The Royal Standard car-park. C James Fagan braves the flames and investigates… The weather is all over the place today, going from rain to...