In light of a new stage adaptation, Fred Johnson analyses present day surveillance and proposes that the reality isn’t as awful as Orwell made it out to be… George Orwell’s novel 1984, first published in 1949,...
Art fair novice and Fine Art student Maja Lorkowska asks: what makes art ‘sellable’? And does that make it great art? As an art fair novice, I felt my way carefully through The...
What’s hot this week? Our pick of the listings from around Liverpool, London and Manchester… PICK OF THE WEEK: Tuesday – 1984 7.30pm @ the Liverpool Playhouse £12-£23 A play performed in 2013...
Two films about the whistleblowing website Wikileaks were released this year – a documentary and a thriller. But which comes out on top? We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (July 2013), director Alex...
Photographer Peter Goodbody walks us through his Venice Biennale… starting with Alexandra Pirici and Manuel Pelmuş’ performative celebration of the biennale (above), The Romanian Pavilion Above: Sailing under The Bridge of Sighs Il Palazzo...
Peter Goodbody extols the virtues of tea as the perfect way to enjoy the world’s oldest arts festival… Most things are made better by a nice cup of tea, even riots and invasions...
It is a pleasing truth that there is more at play in the films of George A. Romero than mere blood and guts… Though hardly the first director to tackle Zombies (it is...
What is at play in the mind of the live art critic? C James Fagan explores the realities of reporting on the genre… I’ve been going to and writing about performance and live...
What’s hot this week? Our pick of the listings from around Liverpool, London and Manchester… Monday – Magic Arm 8pm @ Leaf £5 Described by Iron & Wine’s Samuel Beam as a “master...