The Big Interview: James Coupe, Head of Programme for Photography MA at the Royal College of Art

As interdisciplinary as its other programmes, Photography MA students are experimenting with everything from analogue to neuroscience, fabrication and sculpture. Laura Robertson talks to their Professor of Art and Experimental Media, the artist James...

A White Supremacist Gaze – Riefenstahl Reviewed

Andres Veiel’s Riefenstahl reveals the actor and director was only too pleased to pour her not inconsiderable talents into the Nazi cause… There are moments during Riefenstahl in which you wonder about the...

“A profound sense of belonging”: Małgorzata Mirga-Tas @ The Whitworth – Reviewed

In Manchester’s Whitworth gallery, the Polish-Roma artist showcases textiles and paintings previously seen at Tate St Ives. Maja Lorkowska considers an exhibition inspired by religious iconography that rejects cliché or exoticism of Roma life…...

Reading the Gallery:
On Art & Text

“Words, text, art, text art, artists’ text, art writing.” Mike Pinnington on the intersection of and relationship between art and text…  When we speak about art, we often refer to the ‘story’ of...

Vanessa da Silva: Roda Viva @ Mostyn Gallery – Reviewed

“A joyous, life-affirming show.” Mike Pinnington finds much to celebrate in the Brazilian rhythms of Vanessa da Silva’s exhibition, Roda Viva, at Mostyn Gallery… The temptation to weave between the free-hanging panels and eventually...

Ding Yi: Between Prediction and Retrospection @ Mostyn Gallery
– Reviewed

“Opportunities to engage with names other than the movement’s usual suspects are all too rare.” Mike Pinnington on a close encounter with the geometric abstraction of Ding Yi…  When we think about abstraction...

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Blazing a trail through
the big wide world
12/01/2024
Mike Pinnington on Vallisaari island, Helsinki. Photograph by Laura Robertson

Field Trip: Helsinki, Finland – Happiness and Cultural Guardians

Taking in climate change at Helsinki Biennial, diversity at the Ateneum, and visiting contrasting new galleries in an art school and bar toilets (!), Mike Pinnington’s return to Finland’s capital city is a timely reminder...

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God Unknown Records at 10

“I wanted to release music that I love, that really meant something. Something real.” This weekend sees God Unkinown Records mark a decade of releasing diverse, cutting-edge music from artists based all over...

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Present Tense. Publish by The Double Negative, 2019.

Present Tense (2019) // Paperback // £14.99

Present Tense A decade since Liverpool EU Capital of Culture… What now?  Edited by Laura Robertson and Mike Pinnington ISBN 978-1-5272-4281-4 Published August 2019. Very limited edition run of 250 copies. Paperback, 96...