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Liverpool Biennial 2025: BEDROCK, proposes, says director Sam Lackey, to explore and expose the city’s foundations, by ...
“As the midday sunshine streams through gallery windows, there is an almost tangible dread.” Mike Pinnington on finding the ...
Running in parallel to BEDROCK is the just-as-well established Independents Biennial which, this year, feels as ambitious as it ever has done. Taking place in an astonishing 120 locations across ...
How often do we really examine curatorial contributions – not simply to an exhibition, but to the care and display of collections? Mike Pinnington considers ALL THAT REMAINS: A Curator’s Choice at ...
What if we brought back stone circles and burial mounds? If we started to build ceremonial sites with contemporary, sustainable materials for our loved ones and the generations to come? Laura ...
Sitting in joint 63rd in the 2022 Sight and Sound Great Films of All Time poll, few would question The Third Man’s inclusion; in fact, I was surprised it wasn’t higher. Written by Graham Greene, Carol ...
In its still short lifespan, gaming has come a long way. It enjoys something approaching a ubiquitous presence, one whose reach extends to impacts social and political, as well as cultural. 2018 saw a ...
Although not his debut (that being Bottle Rocket), Rushmore is perhaps the first of Wes Anderson’s films featuring many of the associations we make with his singular style. Recurring cast members Bill ...
“Opportunities to engage with names other than the movement’s usual suspects are all too rare.” Mike Pinnington on a close encounter with the geometric abstraction of Ding Yi… When we think about ...
To mark their recent smash success with the Big Give appeal, Laura Robertson speaks to Arts Emergency CEO Neil Griffiths about why it’s absolutely essential to keep on advocating for working-class ...
“A feeling, a period, a mood.” Mike Pinnington on Veronica Watson, whose portraits – celebrated in new publication All Together Now – currently adorn the Bluecoat’s upstairs gallery… What does it mean ...
A new exhibition at Tate Liverpool takes as its departure point the docks on which the building stands, before plunging us into the depths and beyond. Mike Pinnington reviews The Plant That Stowed ...