How do we understand our relationship with our rural peripheries? Sue Flowers considers a mix of creative responses to the British countryside at the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, and finds stereotype and complexity hung side-by-side… On...
Who really invented Pop Art? Mike Pinnington finds that a group of young British artists, architects and critics — pre-dating Warhol — are to thank for activating a phenomenally successful art movement… Pop Art: today’s visual...
Bubblegum pink breasts and wonky vitrines: Assistant Curator Lauren Barnes 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...
Sue Flowers finds the Bard of Salford in top form as he plays a low key gig in Yorkshire: satirising the BBC, dementia and the gentrification of Manchester… The place is Bentham, North...
From surreal masquerade to a Jackson Pollock parody, Exhibitions and Displays Curator Darren Pih talks us through his favourite works in Tate Liverpool’s brand new (and free) national collection show… Promising more than 150 iconic artworks...
Artistic coalitions and satirical encounters: Deb Laing finds that artist Jennet Thomas cuts a fine political line at the Grundy Art Gallery, and all the better for it… A Margaret Thatcher impersonator, acting as...
Hacking, Youtube tutorials and animated pizzas: Andrew Anderson meets a New Yorker obsessed with the possibilities of merging accessible technology with traditional craft and DIY skills… Andrew Salomone isn’t an artist who tells you...
A celebration of the outsider? At the Victoria Gallery & Museum, Ruth White finds two photographers, separated by more than 100 years, find common ground in their ostracised subject matter… Visit the Victoria Gallery...
‘Nice rebellion, welcome in’: Liz Mitchell visits a provocative and timely exhibition challenging all those who care about the state of art education, now and in the future… It’s quiet in the Special Collections Gallery...