What’s the future of painting? Our reviewer puts Castlefield Gallery’s latest exhibition in context. Painting is not dead. As a medium, however, it is suffering from a death complex. Paradoxically,...
Illustrator George Butler’s drawings of Afghanistan following the withdrawal of foreign troops make up this small but powerful new exhibition. We have become accustomed to an on-the-go diet of snappy...
Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson’s latest show at Yorkshire Sculpture Park looks at our relationship to coal through the ages – with mesmerising results. After making the pilgrimage away from...
Hermaphrodite (Metaphor Time) by Scottish artist Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, currently on display at Kendal’s Abbott Hall Art Gallery, asks its audience to hold multiple views in their mind. See the full...
This retrospective of artist Lorna Simpson’s work is more than a backward glance – it asks big questions about how we perceive the world. Given the high regard in which...
How far would you go in the name of live art? Patrick Confrey & James Monaghan are just coming to the end of seven days of punishing conditions… On Friday...
The Turner Prize-winning artist brings his tapestry exploration of A Rake’s Progress to Manchester. In a spate of impeccable timing – just weeks after Grayson Perry’s inaugural BBC Reith Lecture...
Subversive charity-shop kitsch is one way to describe the local artist’s exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery. Sandwiched between Manchester Art Gallery’s busy shop and a somewhat more traditional display about Victorian...
