Can a literary classic tell us about the times in which we live? James Hanks considers Dostoyevsky’s masterpiece, Crime and Punishment… Chris Hannan’s adaptation and, former Assistant Director at the RSC, Dominic Hill’s unwavering direction...
We spend 5 minutes (ish) with artist network Primitive London, to talk about surveillance, parties and Abandon Normal Devices Festival 2013… Andrew and Henry are two artists behind Primitive, an ever-evolving group of...
Back in Liverpool for 2013, festival of new media Abandon Normal Devices is a more focused affair… Founded in 2009 Abandon Normal Devices (more commonly known as AND Festival) is the multi-disciplinary...
Gorillaz, caricatures and music magazines: we see what our latest Artist of the Month is made of… When we first noticed Gareth’s work, the thing we immediately latched on to is an unavoidable...
This week’s Future City event includes a library of the future, stocked with books deemed essential to such a thing. What would you choose? If you had to suggest books for a library...
Zoe Beloff constructs a world of escapism, dreams and admiration in the Grundy Gallery’s latest exhibition, finds Denise Courcoux… Sigmund Freud, founding father of psychoanalysis, paid a visit to the Coney Island funfairs,...
The hours beyond twilight often instill dread, but the Bluecoat’s artistic director Bryan Biggs finds they can also inspire… The creative pull of the nocturnal hours on artists extends beyond visual art...
How important is painting in a century increasingly dominated by digital media? We spoke to White Cube gallery’s director of exhibitions and John Moores Prize 2014 judge Tim Marlow… The Double Negative:...
A new exhibition of combat photographer Tim Hetherington’s work poses questions about our relationship with warfare. C James Fagan investigates… It’s odd to think that, indirectly, war has formed part of my life;...