Head Hayward Gallery Curator Cliff Lauson talks to Oli Rahman about working with Tracey Emin, being persistent and making exhibitions that matter… My first experience of the Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery consisted of...
Emma Sumner finds out more about Castlefield’s impressive expansion, and why it’s more important than ever to provide artists with affordable work space… Castlefield Gallery has a real knack for developing emerging creative talent in the north-west....
Joseph Viney finds that Milller’s 1953 play has as much to say about a world of growing religious fundamentalism and ‘trial by media’ as it does the McCarthy witch trials era… Accusations of anti-intellectualism,...
Tate Liverpool’s Exhibitions and Displays Curator Darren Pih explains the ‘dirty avant-garde’ thinking behind Richard Hawkins’ new show… Since emerging in the early 1990s, Richard Hawkins has evolved an emphatically diverse practice that defies easy categorisation. Working...
Chinese journalist Joe Zhu shares a fascinating glimpse into the big business of studying art in Hangzhou city… When Walter Benjamin wrote about art and reproduction, I wonder if he had thought about...
Pete Goodbody explores photojournalist Battaglia’s world of blood, terror, and the resilience of ordinary Sicilians… It is a strange feeling to walk around this exhibition of photographs taken in Sicily during the ’70s and ’80s, and to recognise we...
Hold the phone. A new zine is hitting the market right now and its name is Queen of the Track… Described as “vogue on crack” by its creators Flis Mitchell (an artist and...
Despite online competition from the likes of Facebook and Eventbrite, Maja Lorkowska realises that nothing compares to the art of the printed invite… LJMU’s Exhibiton Research Centre is currently home to Please Come...
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