Visibilities: Shaping A Story of Now
Caught up in the rush to diversify, art collections and the narratives they reflect, or don’t, seem more to the fore than ever. Mike Pinnington on an exhibition of Salford University’s Collection that...
In Pictures: Drawing(Paper)Show 2023 – Curators’ Picks
“We feel that mark-making is intrinsic to the human condition.” Celebrating contemporary drawing in its many forms from artists both local and global, co-curators of the Drawing(Paper)Show select some of their favourite pieces featuring in...
Social Issues and Artful Output – Photie Man: 50 Years of Tom Wood
“Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Wood’s pictures is the humanity so near to their surface.” Mike Pinnington on Photie Man: 50 Years of Tom Wood… Photography is full of dualities. Not least presence...
A Reckoning: Liverpool Biennial – Reviewed
For the 12th edition of Liverpool Biennial, curator Khanyisile Mbongwa said she had been tasked with using art as a means to “move through the woundedness” of global and local traumas, both past and...
Reimagining Tate Liverpool for the 21st Century
It was announced earlier this year that Tate Liverpool is due to close its doors in October for a major refurb. This week sees the gallery communicate more details about the proposed reimagining...
The Double Negative x Liverpool Biennial – Open Call for Writers // Deadline: Monday 10 July 2023
Writers wanted! The Double Negative is excited to announce its collaboration with Liverpool Biennial to commission a Merseyside-based writer to reflect on this year’s festival, uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things. For Liverpool...
Chila Kumari Singh Burman: Merseyside Burman Empire
“Like popping candy for the mind.” Mike Pinnington on Chila Kumari Singh Burman’s Merseyside Burman Empire at FACT Liverpool… A riot of colour hits you on arrival. Initially it’s hard for the eyes to...
Elena Subach’s Chairs, and The Absurdist Symptoms of The Ukrainian War
A commission in collaboration with ArtReview and Open Eye’s Ukrainian photography exhibition, HOME: Matthew Lloyd considers Elena Subach’s Chairs, the absurdist symptoms of the Ukrainian war, and the haunting displacement of its citizens…...
The New Bend @ Hauser & Wirth – Reviewed
“A wealth of knowledge, care and skill.” In Hauser & Wirth’s The New Bend, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou finds an exhibition celebrating and extending an artistic, cultural and social legacy generations in the making… What catches...