Mike Pinnington

We take a peek at the line-up for Liverpool Sound City 2014 – and ask if the music festival is on its way out. You can hardly move these days...

Rumours of the death of painting just won’t, well, die, so what is it that’s kept the John Moores Painting Prize going for the best part of 60 years? In...

With stop-frame animation, sculpture and “Pissing Women,” a new Liverpool art exhibition discovers that it’s darkest just before dawn. It is a time drenched in dualities, from the despair of...

We look at Hockney’s struggle with sexual identity via just one, seminal work: “Peter Getting Out of Nick’s Pool.” “What one must remember about some of these pictures is that...

This long-running Liverpool art show features work by art stars such as Marina Abramovic, Matisse and Picasso alongside the “satellites” they inspired. They say a change is as good as...

Open Eye Gallery’s photo show reveals a frontline photojournalist who went beyond the soldier-as-hero clichés. The life of the war reporter, and their comrade, the accompanying photojournalist, is an oft-romanticised one, seemingly lifted straight off the page of a boys’...

The gallery’s latest show sees eight artists explore everything from abandoned Romanian villages to sci-fi. It’s hard to work out what common thread should be in Portfolio NW. Rather than...

Celebrity photographer Rankin gets to grip with death in all its forms in his latest exhibition at Walker Art Gallery. “You should think about death every day for 15 minutes,”...

FACT’s latest exhibition lets artists loose on the arts venue – we find out why, and what we might expect to see. Turning FACT Inside Out is the forthcoming exhibition...

One of its longest-serving members of staff tells us how Liverpool took the Tate and made it the city’s own. When Tate Liverpool opened its doors on 24 May 1988,...

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”...