Comment: Retrospective Age
The lifting of the age limit on Turner Prize nominees recently (previously restricted to artists 50 or under) was applauded and there has been something of an on-going trend for late-career recognition; a...
Playlist: Emotion Wave
Founded amid frustration at traditional gig staging, Emotion Wave have evolved to showcasing producers and musicians. Mike Pinnington talks to the initially reluctant label… A “bastion of creative minds”, together Neil Grant (AKA...
Culture Diary w/c 28-01-2019
Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from around the North of England and the rest of the UK – and loads of it’s free! Monday – Film With...
Culture Diary w/c 21-01-2019
Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from around the North of England and the rest of the UK – and loads of it’s free! Monday – ROOT-ed Zine...
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Notes on Class and the Contemporary Arts: Class IS A Big Deal
Perma-skint, exhausted, disenfranchised… We need to talk about why working class people aren’t getting ahead in the arts. And as we rarely hear directly from working class people themselves about the obstacles they face,...
Profile: “Tom Wood’s photographs are about photography”
On the eve of the publication of new book, Tom Wood: The DPA Work, Stephen Clarke explores Wood’s rich photographic practice, one concerned with people, context and light… The opinion of Clement Greenberg,...
“Art schools remind us of what powerful civic aspiration looks like”
“Research and practice, history and memory, urban space and politics”: John Beck and Matthew Cornford outline the initiating factors, aims, influences and processes that went in to their current Bluecoat exhibition, The Art...
Culture Diary w/c 14-01-2019
Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from around the North of England and the rest of the UK – and loads of it’s free! Monday – A Lovely...
Culture Diary w/c 7-01-2019
Welcome to the first Culture Diary of 2019, featuring our pick of the week’s arts, design, film and music events from around the North of England and the rest of the UK –...