What happens when Hollywood superstar turned contemporary artist Shia LaBeouf runs a telephone hotline? C. James Fagan called to find out… There’s something strange going on… well, strange is the wrong word. Unusual...
If a life offline isn’t the path to real life, then what is? Ahead of FACT’s new exhibition about social media, Amy Jones analyses the concept of authenticity through the prism of celebrity...
Collaboration, collaboration, collaboration: some of the best and brightest independent art spaces in Leeds are joining forces to highlight their work. It’s About Time, says Jade French… Leeds is buzzing. The influential British Art...
Ahead of Monday’s Turner Prize winner announcement, Emma Sumner speaks to one of the nominees: an architectural collective who have been working very closely with Liverpool’s most determined community… The first thing anyone visiting...
Laura Harris finds new exhibitions by Brian Griffiths and B. Wurtz dally with the driftwood of modern existence, yet fluctuate between excellence and mediocrity… Clad in a garish green checked blazer, a giant...
Currently enjoying her second solo show at Timothy Taylor gallery, the German, New York-based installation artist talks us through her current and key influences — including Jean-Luc Godard’s dripping red paint, Duchamp’s semen paintings...
Taking part in an exhibition soon? Think your website’s ‘about’ page could do with a revamp? Calling all artists to our next workshop in Liverpool… Being able to clearly communicate and contextualise artwork...
Is all art about memory? If so, how would Tate Liverpool’s new show about a fictitious and memorised museum take shape? Fred Johnson considers the works to know by heart… At its best, Tate Liverpool’s...
Awkwardness, arts activism, and the HIV virus as a “clever trickster”: David Graham discusses this and more with the artist behind Homotopia festival’s focus exhibition… The global pandemic of HIV and AIDS takes centre...