30/06/2025
Football City, Art United. MIF25

Culture Diary w/c 30-06-2025

Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond… Monday – Exhibitions Continue: @ The Atkinson, Southport – FREE A trio of shows currently grace Southport’s Atkinson. The Magic of...

26/06/2025
Stephen Clarke DKNY New York 1996-web

Simulacra and the City:
Stephen Clarke’s New York 1995–1996

Askance tales of a storied city, New York 1995–1996 is photographer Stephen Clarke’s record of a “brief moment” that nevertheless offers up a multi-lens cultural reckoning… It’s the city that never sleeps; the...

23/06/2025
Amber Akaunu, Still from ‘Dear Othermother’, 2024. Courtesy of the Artist.jpeg-web

Liverpool Biennial 2025: BEDROCK – Reviewed

Tracking a philosophical line across the city, Mike Pinnington reports on drifting purposefully through the 13th edition of Liverpool Biennial… Liverpool Biennial 2025: BEDROCK, proposes, says director Sam Lackey, to explore and expose the city’s...

18/06/2025
CarolineGorick, Cast, 2025-web

Caroline Gorick: After Hours – Reviewed

“As the midday sunshine streams through gallery windows, there is an almost tangible dread.” Mike Pinnington on finding the uncanny in the everyday subjects of Caroline Gorick’s After Hours…  There’s something about small...

16/06/2025
Carreg Ateb: Vision or Dream? @ Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno – FREE

Culture Diary w/c 16-06-2025

Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond… Monday – Continuing: Liverpool Biennial 2025: BEDROCK – FREE The 13th edition of Liverpool Biennial continues across the city and...

09/06/2025
The Night of the Hunter – Previewed

Culture Diary w/c 09-06-2025

Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond… Monday – Continuing: Liverpool Biennial 2025: BEDROCK – FREE The 13th edition of Liverpool Biennial eases into its first full...

06/06/2025
ALLTHATREMAINS-install-MJP-web

ALL THAT REMAINS: A Curator’s Choice – Reviewed

How often do we really examine curatorial contributions – not simply to an exhibition, but to the care and display of collections? Mike Pinnington considers ALL THAT REMAINS: A Curator’s Choice at Victoria Gallery & Museum…...

06/06/2025
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The Weekender

Illness meant that we missed the window to publish our usual pick of the week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond, but its fashionably late sibling, The Weekender,...

04/06/2025
Turning the Place Over, Richard Wilson, 2007, courtesy Liverpool Biennial. All photographs by Alexandra Wolkowicz

My Life in the Biennial with Ghosts

“What would Liverpool be without it?” On the eve of Liverpool Biennial 2025, C James Fagan ponders his sometimes complex, on-going relationship with the UK’s largest festival of contemporary art… It’s a Biennial...