Musing on the rich tradition of narrative song writing, in his latest playlist, Aaron Williams draws on contemporary masters of the form… Music has long been fertile soil for storytelling (and, therefore, storytellers);...
It has been announced that Grace Ndiritu is the winner of 2022’s Film London Jarman Award, beating out strong competition from contemporaries including Jamie Crewe, Onyeka Igwe, Morgan Quaintance, Rosa-Johan Uddoh and Alberta...
“Perhaps public artworks are created knowing they will be relinquished to external forces: to the elements, to politics, and their publics.” Denise Courcoux on the mixed fates of public sculpture in Liverpool… In...
Launched in 1947, the world’s most famous photography collective has now turned its focus to the most intimate of subjects: Family. In an exclusive extract from their new book with AMI, Magnum Photos...
“It is not only In-Situ’s position as a bricks-and-mortar venue in the heart of the community which qualifies it as being embedded.” On the occasion of In-Situ’s 10th anniversary, co-founder William Titley reflects on the...
Sometimes difficult to decipher, Mike Pinnington nevertheless finds much to recommend in current Bluecoat exhibition, breathe, spirit and life… When the Bluecoat was founded in the early decades of the 18th century, it was...
Arts and culture organisations have been anxiously waiting for their fates to be revealed this morning, as Arts Council England finally announce who gets the 2023-26 round of ‘National Portfolio Organisation’ (NPO) funding....
Mike Pinnington willingly follows filmmakers Moorhead & Benson down the rabbit hole of their latest film, Something In The Dirt… Maybe you’re an aficionado of esoteric so-called wyrd fiction, or a Marvel Cinematic...
Bestselling crime writer and creator of the one-and-only DCI Vera Stanhope, Ann Cleeves talks about wickedness and evil in fiction, the bizarre circumstances that prompted her to start writing, and why killing off characters –...