“New mediums gave rise to considerations of how painting and painters might respond.” A trio of works demonstrate that painting’s engagement with photography and film continues to reverberate, finds Mike Pinnington… Prior to...
Reckoning with uncertain times, a group exhibition taking its name from a century old movement is a tonic, says Mike Pinnington… Z – A – U – M. ZAUM. With its roots in...
The great American road trip – the frontier and its trappings – serve as departure point for artist Ed Ruscha, and this tightly focused exhibition of his works, finds Mike Pinnington… In 1956,...
“This exhibition is a road trip, with Ruscha as the driver.” Stephen Clarke rides shotgun through Tate Liverpool’s Artist Rooms: Ed Ruscha… The text-based artwork, ARTISTS WHO DO BOOKS (1976), acts as the...
We know that they are melting, never to return. We know that they are so intrinsic to Icelandic culture that there is grief around their loss; a funeral was held for Okjokull, Iceland’s first glacier to disappear, and which once covered six square miles of deep ice. Kristján Maack is one of those grieving for...
“Exploring the work of ChihChung Chang is to better understand the slippage between stories we think we know and those as experienced by living, breathing places – and the communities calling them home.” Mike...
On the eve of a new Liverpool exhibition, showcasing the notebooks and collages of 2025 TLS Ackerley Prize-winning author Jeff Young, Mike Pinnington considers memory, nostalgia, and the writer’s creative process… In Yoko Ogawa’s...
“Drawing deserves our consideration and attention. It always did.” Mike Pinnington on the ongoing elevation of a medium… Drawing. It’s something we all do, until we don’t. When asked, all too early, to...
Continuing a run of superb exhibitions, Mostyn Gallery in Llandudno hosts Jeremy Deller’s ode to Welsh culture. Laura Robertson finds echoes of and reverie in many versions of the past, a playful and...