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Ambivalent, ironic, alienating. There is a prolonged moment at the beginning of director Alex Ross Perry’s documentary, Pavements, where you get a sense of what it must have been like as an unwitting ...
Askance tales of a storied city, New York 1995–1996 is photographer Stephen Clarke’s record of a “brief moment” that ...
LAAF’s stated aim is to spark ‘informed debate that explores, and increases, appreciation of Arab people and their rich ...
An Introduction To Psychogeography Psychogeography is more than the psychological effects of the urban environment, argues Maisie Ridgway. Here, she explains why the movement has become a political ...
The Russell play is about class and patriarchy, with Shirley upping sticks and moving to Greece in response to her humdrum life. A student I taught at university came from Greece. I once asked what ...
Happily, ALL THAT REMAINS comes into its own as we ease, in a larger space next door, into modernism and those influenced and inspired by it. Cubism by Robert Colquhoun, Victor Passmore’s abstraction, ...
Look And Look Again: David Ferry Ever compared Venice to Blackpool? Stephen Clarke takes a closer look at the aesthetics of the two cities through David Ferry’s elusive and mischievous photomontage… ...
The Plant That Stowed Away – Reviewed 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 ...
Sian Hill: As a working-class artist amongst other artists, you’re always made to feel the need to pipe down and get off your soapbox by your more privileged peers. Class seems to make many artists ...
Too Good To Hide: Tony Hayes “He takes up the invitation to look, but also takes possession without payment – a visual act of shoplifting.” Curator Stephen Clarke on Too Good To Hide, a new exhibition ...
In a shock move, 24 arts organisations ( of those, 18 are currently NPOs) will relocate outside of London, in negotiations with the Arts Council, to other key areas in the North, Midlands and South, ...