Liverpool, Land Of The Giants
Is the Giant Spectacular great art? And how does it compare to other public art in the city? Mark Evans on the power of the unifying moment… Today Liverpool officially welcomes back the Giants. French...
Something Extraordinary: Jellyfish Toxteth
What’s happening on your street? Volunteer James Worley shares his experience of invigilating one of Liverpool Biennial’s most mysterious and popular fringe events… Something out of the ordinary is happening every evening in...
Why We Need Grassroots Art: My Experience With The Lemon Collective
Chris Carr defends and promotes the grassroots arts movement in Liverpool, under the threat of increasing urban redevelopment and commerce… Liverpool is a city that has, for a long time, been in the...
“This is highly finished, ambitious work”: Ed Atkins At The Serpentine
After hearing strong and polarized reviews from friends, Linda Pittwood visits the Serpentine’s new digital installation and finds something genuinely original… Sometimes I suspect that the art that I like isn’t necessarily the art...
Confusing And Ultimately Unfulfilling? Biennial 2014 – Reviewed
Confusing and ultimately unfulfilling? Laura Robertson leaves this year’s Liverpool Biennial remembering a handful of beautiful and thought-provoking pieces, yet feeling that the whole thing never really comes together… We feel like we’ve...
Why Be A Critic?
C James Fagan on why anyone would want to be an art critic, and perhaps more importantly, why criticism is needed at all… What is the point of criticism? Why be an Art...
Biennial 2014: What Peter Wächtler Has To Say About Liverpool
Should an arts festival directly reference the city it calls home? Can art become relevant to a context in which it is displayed? Richard Whitby examines one artwork in this year’s Liverpool Biennial that has a lot to say,...
Liverpool Biennial director: “I want to make it part of people’s everyday lives”
This year’s Liverpool Biennial is the first that director Sally Tallant can really call her own, having arrived in Liverpool only a few months before the 2012 festival. Now with a new, earlier...
Professor Jon Butterworth On Smashing Physics
Sci-fi continues to inspire the arts, and you can’t switch TV channels without seeing Dr Who or Brian Cox. So is science finally cool? Joseph Viney asks a CERN scientist… This Friday marks the...