Short on spends, but keen to sample some of this year’s hotly anticipated MIF programme? Look no further than Emma Nuttall’s guide to the best discounts and free events… Well-known for showcasing this...
Tupperware, networking and Weight Watchers: Amelia Crouch finds herself drawn into the world of female self-help groups via Lucy Beech’s “ambitious” new solo exhibition at the Harris Museum and Art Gallery… “You’ll be...
Lara Eggleton comes face to face with the unprecedented contradictions of our age at the Grundy gallery’s latest exhibition… Modern History Vol. 1, guest curated by Lynda Morris and organised by Sophia Crilly and...
Heather Garner reacquaints herself with a festival that strives to find common ground within different cultures, traditions and geographic landscapes… We live in an increasingly small world and with the click of a mouse or...
Katherine April Caddy finds herself captivated by the smaller, wilder works of an artist who enjoyed making colour a stranger to us… I knew little about Richard Diebenkorn before attending his retrospective at...
Giant kaleidoscopes, escaped ducks and a travelling cake: Rob Battersby shares his pictures of Liverpool’s one-night arts and culture festival… Above: Kaleidoscopic Disturbance at Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral, by Andy McKeown. Bathing the 175 foot...
Meet the advocates: Heather Garner talks to Liverpool’s Paying Artists campaigners about equality, fair wages, and making a giant, travelling cake to be shared out at galleries during tonight’s Light Night… Think of...
Military occupation, Christian iconography and states of ecstasy: arts photographer Robert Battersby trawls La Biennale di Venezia 2015 and uncovers a rich diversity of provocative, contemporary art… Main image: Chiharu Shiota’s (b. 1972, Osaka)...
Nominated by their tutors, Jack Welsh reveals the top art graduates from across the North-West region, from Blackpool to Wirral and everywhere in-between; a snapshot of this year’s ambitious degree show season… It’s that time of...