Talking to The Wastes
“Truth, pretending, endings, and the stories we necessarily tell ourselves and each other.” Ellie Hoskins on a fragmentary and poetic debut novel by Roy Claire Potter… A good book, to me, feels like...
Dora Maar: Behind the Lens – In Pictures
Dora Maar: Behind the Lens emphasises the titular artist’s photographic talent and experimental flair. We invited the founder of Amar Gallery, Amar Singh, to talk us through some of his favourite works from...
The Big Interview: Jonathan Boyd, Head of Programme for Jewellery & Metal MA (JaM) at the Royal College of Art
Pushing the idea of jewellery to breaking point, Royal College of Art tutor Jonathan Boyd is encouraging the next generation of designers and artists to exponentially challenge their practice. He tells Laura Robertson...
Culture Diary w/c 24-06-2024
Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond… Monday – Brendan Lyons: After/Before (by appointment until Friday) @ Bridewell Studios & Gallery – FREE Short-run show for...
Culture Diary w/c 17-06-2024
Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond… Monday – All About Eve 7.30pm @ FACT Liverpool – £8 Anna Baxter plays the titular Eve, an ingénue...
On 2001: A Space Odyssey
“It remains a masterpiece of epic proportions.” Mike Pinnington does a deep-dive into Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, which is back in cinemas this weekend – 60 years after the director had wondered...
This Town: Working Class Cultures on TV
Just 8% of people in film and TV identify as being from a working-class background. Can better, more nuanced representation on screen help? Kenn Taylor on Stephen Knight’s This Town… Dante (Levi Brown)...
Culture Diary w/c 10-06-2024
Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond… Monday – Goat Girl Album Launch & Signing 12.30pm @ the Jacaranda Club, Liverpool – £Various An early one for...
Thy Race is Run – Apocalypse Now?
Why are we so drawn, perhaps increasingly so, to visions of the apocalypse? Mike Pinnington, via a variety of mediums – from poetry to gaming – interrogates our seemingly endless appetite for the end… “We...