We Fell In Love Again: The Whitworth — Reviewed
Calling for us to ‘fall in love again’ this Valentines Day, the Whitworth Art Gallery is opening its doors after a major £15m redevelopment. But did our first date go off with a...
Daydream Believer: Lost Minutes At The Unity Theatre
A beautiful live music and digital art collaboration, Lost Minutes will change the way you experience daydreams, says Laura Robertson… The first thing that you notice upon meeting Friend or Foe Collective is laughter. They’re constantly...
FutureEverything 2015 — The Highlights
“Is it even possible to get more hip to the twenty-teens than this?” Bruce Sterling of WIRED magazine asked this time last year, looking ahead to FutureEverything Festival 2014. Yes, it is Bruce....
Listening — Reviewed
Dying stars, siren song and call centre voices: C. James Fagan gives himself over to experiencing sound in all kinds of unusual ways, thanks to the latest Hayward Touring exhibition… There was a...
Applications Now Open: CVAN Critical Writing Bursary & Workshop Programme
Fancy getting some help to kickstart your arts writing career? Read on… Interested in arts and culture writing? Serious about turning professional? We are very pleased indeed to be collaborating with Contemporary Visual Arts...
“He purposely erased a lot of his own humanity”: Transmitting Andy Warhol
A robotic persona who painted by numbers, anticipated the Internet and annoyed Rauschenberg: Tate Liverpool assistant curator Stephanie Straine gets to grips with Andy Warhol through a major exhibition of his work, and finds that...
Making Residencies Radical: Residual Projects
As part one of Residual Projects mini-residency programme comes to a close this weekend, Eleanor Clayton considers its format: promising an alternative for artists who are often torn between commitments at home and work with...
Digital Utopias — Reviewed
Hoping to discover how new technologies are enabling creativity across the arts, Laura Robertson realises that commissioning successful, high quality and ambitious projects will always rely on good people… “When you share data,...
Hear Here: The Act Of Listening
As Sam Belinfante’s Hayward Touring exhibition Listening travels to The Bluecoat, C. James Fagan ponders the differences between ‘hearing’ and ‘listening’ in the context of our contemporary lifestyles… Since the human race emerged,...