Ceri Hand Summer Fete – Reviewed
Sarah Creed reports back from a day of pinatas, cake and fish fights (!) at the first Ceri Hand Summer Fete… Saturday 17th August – a regular Saturday morning, in which families mill around...
Troublemaker:
An Artist on Jobseeker’s
In case you didn’t know, getting a foothold in the arts sector is hard. But that’s just for starters, explains C James Fagan… I’ve been struggling with this for days now. By which...
John Moores Painting Prize 2014: Call For Entries
Fancy your chances of being in the company of Richard Hamilton, David Hockney and Peter Doig? Read on… When Sarah Pickstone’s Stevie Smith and the Willow (above) was announced as the winner of...
Opening Now: 10 Essential Exhibitions
As the summer blockbuster exhibitions come to a close, we hunt down the 10 best UK art shows coming your way… Transmitted Live: Nam June Paik Resounds @ Talbot Rice Gallery 9 August – 19...
Art Everywhere?
The largest exhibition of its kind, Art Everywhere opened this week. Freya Carr considers the results… On Picton Road, Liverpool, there’s a stately – or rather, queenly – figure surveying the build-up of...
A Day in the Country:
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
With artwork sat side-by-side with nature, Emma Sumner finds Yorkshire Sculpture Park is exactly what it’s cracked up to be… There’s no other place in the world like Yorkshire Sculpture Park, or so...
How To Fall In Love – Reviewed
Helped on his way by disability theatre company RAWD, C James Fagan went off around Liverpool in search of love… As much as I can make out contemporary dating has much in common...
In Profile: Jackson Pollock
Conal Hughes considers the technique and influence of a giant of the 20th century art world, Jackson Pollock… Jackson Pollock kicked down the front door of abstract expressionism and continues to be a major...
Post-Print Publishing? The Literary Digital Revolution
Does the future of publishing lie with eBooks, or are we just not being ambitious enough? Fred Johnson investigates… eBooks are one of those strange subjects that people tend to have strong and...