A new exhibition occupies gallery space at two very different Liverpool institutions, but to what end, asks Mike Pinnington… The Walker Art Gallery and The Royal Standard, on the face of it at...
Hailed as a “Performance phenomenon and gender disillusionist”, C James Fagan attempts to describe the work of artist and performer Dickie Beau… I’ve spoken before of taxonomy, the systems we use to catalogue and...
A new exhibition at Tate Liverpool seeks to identify links between art and left-wing ideas, finds Fred Johnson… There is a long-enduring image in popular culture and political satire of the liberal leftie...
Amid the realities of wikileaks and spying on allies at the highest levels, Orwell’s dystopian vision seems pertinent as ever, says Fred Johnson… What to expect of a new adaptation of Orwell’s famous, politically...
Frieze veteran Sarah Creed visits 2013′s iteration and finds some green shoots of change for the good… 2013 marked the 11th edition of the Frieze Art Fair in London. Containing 152 of the...
In light of a new stage adaptation, Fred Johnson analyses present day surveillance and proposes that the reality isn’t as awful as Orwell made it out to be… George Orwell’s novel 1984, first published in 1949,...
Art fair novice and Fine Art student Maja Lorkowska asks: what makes art ‘sellable’? And does that make it great art? As an art fair novice, I felt my way carefully through The...
Photographer Peter Goodbody walks us through his Venice Biennale… starting with Alexandra Pirici and Manuel Pelmuş’ performative celebration of the biennale (above), The Romanian Pavilion Above: Sailing under The Bridge of Sighs Il Palazzo...
Peter Goodbody extols the virtues of tea as the perfect way to enjoy the world’s oldest arts festival… Most things are made better by a nice cup of tea, even riots and invasions...