James West speaks to contemporary photographer Nyaba Ouedraogo about how (and why) his new exhibition is juxtaposed with museum objects taken from the Congo area during British colonial rule, and the controversy of the ‘African...
Do artists based in the North of England have an inferiority complex? And what would Venice Biennale look like if it was based in Warrington? We find out from the lead curator of NORTH Contemporary, Will...
Denise Courcoux finds that the second iteration of Lynda Morris’s exhibition is both characteristic and symptomatic of a recent and turbulent history. But can its artists act as ‘moral agents’? “It is still...
Bizarre, chaotic and optimistic: Naomi Cull finds that banning the curator at Castlefield Gallery has a liberating and playful effect on the artists… What seems like a conventional group show — a selection of artists...
Aquaponics, photography and cabinets of curiosity: introducing The Study, Manchester Museum’s brand new space for brand new thinking… What exactly is it? A hands-on, public gallery, research space, and coworking centre, The Study...
Oscar-nominated short film and powerful photography highlight the modern-day, global reality of slavery, finds James West… One of the most common complaints directed at the International Slavery Museum (ISM), based in Liverpool, is that the institution’s representation...
OK Computer: Assistant Curator Stephanie Straine talks us through her favourite works in Tate Liverpool’s brand new (and free) national collection show… Promising more than 150 iconic artworks from the 20th and 21st century — including...
How can Pop Art be redefined for the 21st century? Deb Laing finds Liverpool-based artists inspired by Black American culture trying to do just that at a special exhibition for Liverpool International Music Festival (LIMF)…...
As they prepare their last experimental arts show of 2015 — a play entitled The Happy Jug — Syndrome talk to C. James Fagan about Proust, the human condition, and replacing actors with concrete...