Culture Diary w/c 04-08-2014
What’s hot this week? Our pick of the arts listings from around Liverpool and the rest of the UK! Monday — Exhibition Opening: Dazzle Ship Prints 10am-5pm @ Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool — FREE Love Carlos...

Confusing and ultimately unfulfilling? Laura Robertson leaves this year’s Liverpool Biennial remembering a handful of beautiful and thought-provoking pieces, yet feeling that the whole thing never really comes together… We feel like we’ve...
His team call him The Maestro; a 91-year-old figurehead in the kinetic-optic art movement who has fundamentally changed our perception of colour. As he unveils a major new commission in Liverpool, we find out what makes Carlos...
Sci-fi sculpture park: we climb aboard Carlos Cruz-Diez’s Dazzle Ship to meet the people involved in bringing it to life… Venezuelan kinetic and op-artist Carlos Cruz-Diez, well-known for his wild, immersive experimentations with colour, unveils...
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...
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,...
Emma Palmer leaves Paris and the surprises of The Palais de Tokyo feeling completely dazzled… I was fortunate enough to squeeze in a visit to Paris for the closing weekend of Phillipe Parreno’s gargantuan...