Grace Harrison looks at the results and repercussions of a public artwork never made, echoing the stalled, ongoing regeneration plans for Anfield, Liverpool… Much of the work of the artist Jayne Lawless strives to...
A new exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary brings together the largest ever selection of Yugoslav art in the UK from the ‘golden years’ of the Socialist Federal Republic. What emerges, finds Bob Dickinson, is a witty,...
Combining clever forethought with mythology and modern physics, Vanessa Wheeler explores AL and Al’s new exhibition at HOME, Manchester; that takes you back — and forward — in time… Astronomy meets astrology currently...
An unassuming Southport beach in the hands of artist David Jacques becomes the battleground for a social and cultural negotiation, finds Les Roberts… Edges can be many things. They can be sharp (in that they incise...
What does it take to create a magazine from scratch? Laura Robertson collected some insider secrets — from The Gourmand, The White Review, Dazed and magCulture – at one of the first ever Frieze Academy courses…...
Jennet Thomas transports C. James Fagan back to the Thatcher years: a time of nuclear scares, managed decline and milk snatching… Thatcher! Thatcher! Milk snatcher! This chant has resonance with me, as Margaret...
What makes a pop culture icon? Mike Pinnington on the serendipity of Robert Longo’s most influential – and most imitated – work… Walking past Untitled (Joe) 1981 as it was being installed on the second floor of Tate Liverpool,...
On display as part of Tate Liverpool’s current exhibition An Imagined Museum, C. James Fagan analyses the dreamlike, uneasy quality of Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Still #48… The 20th century was one of...
Lesley Taker is led to a secret location to encounter live surveillance, George Orwell and an exploration of our mediated existence… A Friday afternoon, straight from the office with a very busy brain, seems to...