The world is beginning to mirror some of the most dystopian tropes of science fictional imaginings. How might we change course? Mike Pinnington reflects on the artists and thinkers looking beyond a futurology of...

With new year comes the inevitable expectation and planning around new exhibitions to see in the months ahead. But what of those shows already open, that remain worthy of your time? Here, Mike...

As we ease our way into 2025, the first Culture Diary for the year will be with us next week. But, we thought, given a few choice cuts coming this way, it would...

Training his lens on a plethora of subcultures, photographer David Wright’s Tribes of England captures those enjoying the liberation of choice…  In an infamous exchange, Lady Susan Hussey – a British noblewoman who served as...

“Doing better is the overarching motif of Kaleidoscopic Realms.” Mike Pinnington on a group exhibition putting learning disabled and neurodivergent artists front and centre… Kaleidoscopic: having complex patterns of colours; multicoloured; made up of...

Laura Robertson looks to an ambitious Liverpool-based digital art project that is using photography to document important trees – and as a result, charts the lives and cohabitation of humans and non-human species… ...