What Price Culture?
Kenn Taylor takes a considered look at what an increasing commodification of culture means to a city… On a preserved section of the Berlin Wall, specifically the East Side Gallery, now used as...
A Private Affair: Personal Collections of Contemporary Art
Linda Pittwood visits Preston’s Harris Museum & Gallery and asks: what art could you live with and revisit day after day? Fighting the Friday night traffic to escape from Liverpool, we battle through...
TEDxMerseyside – The New Futurism
C James Fagan ponders the wisdom in debates around The New Futurism. Around since the 80s, TED began life as a conference bringing people together from the worlds of technology, entertainment and design....
Out of This World: Kosmica at FACT
Jon Davies hopes for a stellar evening; a quartet of female speakers his guides… Since mid-December FACT has exhibited Republic of the Moon, a series of lunar inspired artworks, augmented by cult sci-fi film...
Mogadishu – Reviewed
Rachael Jones on a play for our times, but can it live up to its reputation… Following stints at the Lyric Hammersmith and Manchester Royal Exchange, Vivienne Frantzmann’s debut play Mogadishu arrives at the...
Iona Kewney & Joseph Quimby
C James Fagan finds himself left almost dumbstruck by a performance demonstrating the incredible potential of the human form… Part of the programme accompanying Gina Czarnecki’s retrospective exhibition, and featuring in the exhibition...
Oliver Braid: My Five New Friends
For 18 months, artist Oliver Braid has been on a mission; aiming to become friends with the five most attractive male undergraduates from Glasgow School of Art, documenting each relationship, sparing none of...
Departure Lounge – Previewed
Laura Brown is put in mind of Club 18-30 in a LIPA led production at the Unity Theatre… An airport waiting lounge is never a particularly happy place. You’ll note they didn’t film...
Richard Simpkin and Simone Lueck: Richard & Famous – Reviewed
Les Roberts takes in the Open Eye Gallery’s latest exhibition and finds, for some, 15 minutes of fame could never be enough… I’m no fan of the celebrity culture that continually attacks the...