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...
The Big Interview: Jennifer Higgie On One Day, Something Happens: Paintings Of People
As her figurative painting exhibition comes to a close in Southport and travels on to Eastbourne, the frieze magazine co-editor, art writer and newbie curator talks about her emotional attachment to the works...
“I think I might have joined a cult…” Omphalos @ Invisible Wind Factory — Reviewed
Laura Robertson tries to recall an evening of pseudo-science, divine ritual and camp, James Bond villainy at The Kazimier’s new venue… I think I might have joined a cult. Or have I been hypnotised? I’m confused,...
WATCH: Timelapse Of Huge, Steel Lotus Buds Installation At Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Swiss artist Not Vital unveils huge new stainless steel sculptures at his first major UK exhibition… We saw them just as they were installed; glinting in the sunshine, placed carefully by a team of...
A Review From The Future… Liverpool Biennial 2016
Zian Chen travels forwards in time, to July 2016, to bring us a review of this year’s Liverpool Biennial festival… Relative to visual cultures, literature is a rather more stable intellectual milieu – and...