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...
Liverpool’s Art Scene Now
Ahead of this week’s Biennial 2014 opening, ArtReview’s Oliver Basciano assesses Liverpool’s contemporary art offer, and wonders at the striking absence of new artist-run initiatives… Contemporary art – at least if we follow a...
In Conversation: Katie Cuddon And Celia Hempton
Curator Ceri Hand talks to Pontoon Lip artists Katie Cuddon and Celia Hempton about Rome, wobbly sculptures and sexual psychology… Cell Project Space is a self-supporting gallery and event space based in East London, founded...
The Big Interview: Carlos Cruz-Diez
His team call him The Maestro; a 91-year-old figurehead in the kinetic-optic art movement who has fundamentally changed our perception of colour. As he unveils a major new commission in Liverpool, we find out what makes Carlos...
Reactor Halls: The Dark Horse Moving Picture Show
Sex dolls, The Sooty Show and super 8: Richard Whitby gets sucked into a nightmarish version of children’s TV in Nottingham’s newest arts space… Featuring works by Jennet Thomas, Paul Tarragó and Leo Chadburn...
“I think we work best in places that are a bit weird”: Happy Birthday Black Dogs
As the irrepressible and socially engaged art collective celebrate 10 years, will they ever stop challenging the arts system? Linda Pittwood finds out… A non-profit, evolving, critical art collective hailing from Leeds, Black Dogs...