“What is he looking at?” John Stezaker’s Untitled 1978-9
The celebrated collage artist makes a trap for the gaze, finds Mike Pinnington; epitomising the pleasure of looking. But just what — or who — is he looking at? What is he looking...
“An epic screening of a work based on epic source material” — The Big Interview: susan pui san lok
Martial arts heroes, swordplay and fantasy: artist susan pui san lok speaks to Linda Pittwood about translating arguably Hong Kong’s most beloved epic into the gallery space… Born in Essex, England, susan pui san lok...
Should We Stay or Should We Go? | Frieze
Our editor Laura Robertson — alongside writers, artists, directors and curators including Damien Hirst, Sally Tallant, Iwona Blazwick, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Cornelia Parker – presents her opinion on the impending EU referendum for...
Tracking The Process Of Abandonment: Victoria Lucas’ Decaying Urban Spaces
Oxford Arms, London (1875) Demolished around 1876 (above) Artist Victoria Lucas charts the abandonment of obsolete buildings through film and photography, finds Emma Fraser; and in doing so, salvages material relics of the modern world…...
Blue Skies: Our Five Highlights
Candy Crush to help cure depression? Bicycle utopias? Humans replaced by robots? Hear more from the experts on the topics that will make a difference to YOUR future… In the style of TED...
“The underground holds secrets that we’re only beginning to guess at” — The Big Interview: Robert Macfarlane
Adam Scovell discusses English Eerie and Folk Horror fiction, the “messiness of modern nature”, and subterranean worlds with collaborator, academic and bestselling author, Robert Macfarlane… Robert Macfarlane has been one of a number of...
“Drama, humour and unconscious performances of the everyday”: Cao Fei At China Visual Festival 2016
Linda Pittwood hears about the threads that bind together the films of contemporary artist Cao Fei: the star guest at this year’s Chinese Visual Festival in London… In the Q&A, someone asked: “What does it mean...
Class of 2016: The North-West’s Top Fine Art Graduates Revealed
Up and down the land, Fine Art students are preparing their final, graduate exhibitions. But who really stands out across Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside? Jack Welsh asks the tutors to pick...
Bacon, Lassnig & Kruglyanskaya: Tate Liverpool’s Summer Season — Reviewed
Why do we paint? Jack Roe looks for answers inside and outside of the canvas with three invigorating, theatrical, and very human, artists… The question that acts as a kind of leitmotif for...