Winner of the inaugural John Moores Critics Award, Linda Pittwood reports back from the recent Shanghai Biennale… The first time I visited the Power Station of Art, epicentre of the 9th Shanghai Biennale,...
Invited to York by Aesthetica Magazine, we discovered there’s so much more to the city than its Viking heritage… Think of York and your mind conjures … what? The collective conscience probably turns...
Artist, and Artistic Director at the Bluecoat, Bryan Biggs reports back from Cologne… There’s a joke going round in Germany at the moment about its Chancellor: ‘What does Angela Merkel do with her...
Absinthe, indie and Guernica, all part of a whistle-stop tour of Madrid, one of the world’s finest cities… It’s always a thrill landing in one of the world’s greatest cities, but as we...
Artist Natalie Hughes infiltrates Frankfurt, observing camping punks, art schools, curated balconies and confused Americans … It’s 9:20 am Frankfurt time on the 14th September and there’s a chill in the air as I make...
When we were invited down to Radio 6 Music, we thought it would make perfect material for a London Field Trip… This particular Field Trip has been a long time coming. London is...
Berlin: a city where gothic meets space age architecture… Fired up on caffeine courtesy of a beautiful cafe in north east Berlin (Anna Blumen), I rock up at the Neue Nationalgalerie, where construction...
Paul Forster reports from Indie Tracks Festival, and asks: ‘is this the last bastion of indie-pop?’ If indie-pop is the last bastion, then Indie Tracks, the festival located in the Derbyshire countryside, is...
Linda Pittwood takes a trip to the exhibition of modern and contemporary art in Kassel, Germany… On a bright sunny afternoon we followed the map to a shabby building, went round the back,...