“Exploring the work of ChihChung Chang is to better understand the slippage between stories we think we know and those as ...

Sacred & Profane: Haunted Paper On the eve of a new Liverpool exhibition, showcasing the notebooks and collages of 2025 TLS Ackerley Prize-winning author Jeff Young, Mike Pinnington considers memory, ...

Another Dimension – On Contemporary Drawing “Drawing deserves our consideration and attention. It always did.” Mike Pinnington on the ongoing elevation of a medium… Drawing. It’s something we all do, ...

Carreg Ateb: Vision or Dream? Reviewed Continuing a run of superb exhibitions, Mostyn Gallery in Llandudno hosts Jeremy Deller’s ode to Welsh culture. Laura Robertson finds echoes of and reverie in ...

A Singular Vision: Powell and Pressburger With their celebrated masterpiece The Red Shoes currently showing on the big screen, Mike Pinnington considers the films of Michael Powell and Emeric ...

Pavements – Reviewed Biopic, mock-doc, juke box musical, exhibition? Mike Pinnington considers director Alex Ross Perry’s documentary, Pavements… Ambivalent, ironic, alienating. There is a prolonged ...

Ostensibly the tale of a notorious hacker and a missing person on 23rd century Mars, with a plot exploring, among other things, brain farms, Jérémie Périn’s sci-fi noir is frequently described as ...

Liverpool Biennial 2025: BEDROCK – Reviewed Tracking a philosophical line across the city, Mike Pinnington reports on drifting purposefully through the 13th edition of Liverpool Biennial… Liverpool ...

Culture Diary w/c 16-06-2025 Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond… Monday – Continuing: Liverpool Biennial 2025: BEDROCK – FREE The 13th edition ...

ALL THAT REMAINS: A Curator’s Choice – Reviewed How often do we really examine curatorial contributions – not simply to an exhibition, but to the care and display of collections? Mike Pinnington ...

Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from around the North of England and the rest of the UK – and loads of it’s free! Tuesday – Being Frank:... What histories, memories and ...