Liverpool’s new music festival returns – and provides an unusual means of getting to grips with the Scouse city. There was a time when the words “music festival” and “Liverpool” in the same sentence meant…
Ahead of this year’s awards, the “Scouse Mercury Prize” may just have put Liverpool’s musical past to bed. In 2001, due to the high frequency of number one hits produced by bands associated with the…
Part history, part fantasy, Mark Leckey’s exhibition attempts to sum up our need to communicate – but does the show succeed? If you’d spoken to anybody at the Bluecoat in the run-up to the Mark…
With FACT Liverpool turning ten this month, we look back at how far it’s come – & how far it has to go. Ten years ago this month, FACT, the Foundation for Art and Creative…
Humble drawings, superstar artists: does this Liverpool art exhibition debunk the myth that drawing isn’t ‘real’ art? There’s something very much under the radar about this latest Liverpool art exhibition. Not wishing to be vulgar,…
Is Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery merely a historic relic – or a vital part of the Liverpool art world? The Walker Art Gallery is something of an unsung jewel in the crown amongst Liverpool’s younger,…
Mike Pinnington gets into the (alt) festive spirit with FACT’s Christmas film season. Elves, Santa and, er, gremlins all feature We all love a good Christmas film, but a glance through the TV listings at…
Before it leaves Liverpool, we take a last look at Doug Aitken’s installation When Liverpool-based architect Matthew Ashton interviewed Doug Aitken and (fellow architect) David Adjaye earlier this year for The Double Negative, Aitken likened…
A new David Hockney exhibition shows the artist as a young lad blinking in the bright lights of the Big Apple In 1735, when William Hogarth produced A Rake’s Progress, his epic series of drawings…
Stuart Roy Clarke’s football photography series is a labour of love: it documents 30 years of the changing face of British football. Mike Pinnington gets a closer look. Over the past couple of decades or…
It’s a tired argument: art blogs versus art writing. But as they head up a critical writing session at Liverpool Biennial, Mike Pinnington reckons now is the time to revisit the debate – and re-write…
Blogs and bloggers of the world (or the North at least) unite: nominations for the Blog North Awards close in under a week It might be considered social media, but writing a blog is usually…
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