In Profile: Yo La Tengo
From the jangle-pop of their early years, via indie-rock, folk and noise-pop, over four decades, Yo La Tengo have staked out and defined their own territory… Where to start with Yo La Tengo?...
LOOK Photo Biennial:
Beyond Sight
In 2024′s LOOK Photo Biennial, three projects strive to bring the climate crisis into greater focus. Mike Pinnington considers the issues at hand, and the success (or otherwise) of the works on display… Earlier...
Culture Diary w/c 27-08-2024
Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond… Tuesday – Gloria 2.30pm (and, again, 2pm Thursday) @ FACT Liverpool – £8 In her obituary for actor Gina Rowlands,...
Culture Diary w/c 19-08-2024
Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond… Monday – Kneecap + Q&A 7pm @ FACT Liverpool – £12.90 “We’ve found our calling: giving the middle-finger to...
The Big Interview: Charmaine Watkiss
To mark her new exhibition Legacy at Abbot Hall Gallery, Kendal, Charmaine Watkiss talks to fellow artist Lela Harris about their experiences of joining the permanent art collection, of using art to tell...
“A tapestry of new possibilities…” Charmaine Watkiss: Legacy – Reviewed
Kirsty Jukes reviews Legacy, Charmaine Watkiss’ new exhibition at Abbot Hall Gallery, Kendal, and finds a generous, critical, female gaze cast across botanics, history, ritual and mythology… Legacy, curated by Helen Stalker, is...
Too Good To Hide: Tony Hayes
“He takes up the invitation to look, but also takes possession without payment – a visual act of shoplifting.” Curator Stephen Clarke on Too Good To Hide, a new exhibition of photography currently on display at Chester’s...
Culture Diary w/c 12-08-2024
Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond… Monday – Exhibition Continues: Anish Kapoor: Monadic Singularity @ Liverpool Cathedral – FREE Last seen in a major show in the city...
Culture Diary w/c 05-08-2024
Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond… Monday – Exhibition Continues: Brickworks @ Tate Liverpool + RIBA North – FREE “From breeze blocks to dry stone walls,...