The Double Negative Awards 2014
We may not have a glitzy ceremony, but we do have an esteemed panel of judges. All year, our critics have been travelling the length and breadth of Britain, witnessing the best contemporary (and classic)...
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Brian Catling’s Antix 2 — Reviewed
“He went to bed and bound his head with vinegar and brown paper…” C. James Fagan finds nursery rhymes, alchemy and transformation powering the heart of the Bluecoat’s Art of the Lived Experiment exhibition… For a...
The Serving Library: Concentric Process
Tate Liverpool’s interim Head of Exhibitions and Displays, Tamsin Dillon, gives her take on the ‘concentric process’ of The Serving Library’s commissioned cultural bulletins… An airbrush portrait of Wyndham Lewis by Chris Evans; a photograph of...
Expand Your Mind: Five Unmissable Tate Liverpool Events
What does Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable have to do with cinema? And how do you design an international art magazine? We pick five of the best upcoming talks and tours at Tate...
The Skewed Mirror Of Gretchen Bender
Barbara Kruger and Cindy Sherman were her peers, but little is known about multimedia artist Gretchen Bender. C. James Fagan visits a new retrospective at Tate Liverpool to explore Bender’s backlash against “immoral consumerism”… Plato...
The White Cube, The Artist And Me
Just who do artists make work for anyway? In an extension of his essay on visitor experience, Biennial 2014: The Space In Between, C James Fagan considers the impact of the white cube...
The Glitch Interview: S. J. Fowler
C James Fagan throws the rule book out of the window for his interview with Syndrome’s latest resident artist, poet, performer, and muse, S. J. Fowler… Syndrome is an event; it is a...
Biennial 2014: The Space In Between
Notice anything different? C James Fagan realises that Liverpool Biennial is changing the space around us, and therefore, he argues, the expectation of the visitor… There’s a lot of space in FACT. The artist Sharon...
Why Be A Critic?
C James Fagan on why anyone would want to be an art critic, and perhaps more importantly, why criticism is needed at all… What is the point of criticism? Why be an Art...