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Picasso: Peace and Freedom @ Tate Liverpool
Pablo Picasso, Lobster and Cat, 1965Ah! Picasso, a deeply flawed man and an exceptionally talented artist. The Titan of 20th Century art is receiving an indubitably deserved solo exhibition at Tate...
View ArticleIntuition @ Whitworth Art Gallery
Outsider Art is interesting because of its inherently problematic nature. In the same way that you can never really safely define art - earnestly asking “But what is art?” is simply unforgivably gauche...
View ArticleHaving A Do @ St Luke’s Church
Keep it simple, stupid. Who hasn’t been assaulted by this exhausted phrase? It might make me want to obstinately elaborate, but that doesn’t stop it being irrefutably true.Fab Collective might have a...
View ArticleTrash Humpers @ Wolstenholme Creative Space
For a film that features bin fucking, baby doll abuse and hippy murder, Trash Humpers is a surprisingly dull experience. Presented on Saturday night in the earnestly edgy Wolstenholme Creative Space,...
View ArticleEndurance @ Merseyside Maritime Museum
Stuff the A Team, the only display of hyper-masculine tomfoolery I have any time for right now is down at the Merseyside Maritime Museum.I grew up with the sagas of the Heroic Age of Antarctic...
View ArticleLaura Belém's The Temple of 1000 Bells @ The Oratory
If I needed reminding - and I don’t! - that it’s less than a month till the 6th Liverpool Biennial, last night was a special preview of Laura Belém's The Temple of 1000 Bells at the Oratory.The Oratory...
View ArticleJohn Moores Painting Prize 2010
I like painting... in fact, in my own dorky-white-middle-class way, I'll admit privileging it over most other art forms. The simple equation art = painting may be wrong, but it feels so right. With...
View ArticleBiennial @ 52 Renshaw Street
The old Rapid buildings along Renshaw Street have been used for a variety of interesting purposes recently, but the Biennials residency in the space will take some beating.The vast and warren-like...
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Biennial @ The Europleasure / Scandinavian Hotel
As many people have commented, one of the wonderful side effects of the Biennial is the access to disused buildings, many that I've previously walked past without noticing. The Europleasure /...
View ArticleRecorders : Rafael Lozano-Hemmer @ Manchester Art Gallery
Until recently art that was substantively digital or technological seemed to jump one of either two way. It was technologically awkward, light years behind the actual advanced grace of contemporary...
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The illustration of Tove Jansson
I was a lucky child. Unlike most of British children I wasn’t exposed the Moomins by creepy stop animated felt, Japanese cartoon interpretation or the slightly awkwardly written/translated novels....
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Sound Relay ~ Long Night 2010
Photo from Liverpool Echo - see more on LiverpoolEcho.co.ukIn recent weeks - perhaps prompted by budget cuts, perhaps by the many wonderful musical and artistic experiences I've enjoyed - I've been...
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Goodbye Don Van Vliet
If the name of this blog isn’t enough of a give away, the fact that I dedicated my MA dissertation to Don Van Vliet might indicate to you that I am a little bit of a Captain Beefheart fan girl. With...
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Nam June Paik @ Tate Liverpool & FACT
Something magical is happening in Liverpool... and I don’t mean the snow or the Christmas spirit. Split across the Tate Liverpool and FACT, Nam June Paik is receiving a very well deserved...
View Article2010 in Art, Theatre, Film, Music and Meme
Art2010 started as the year that my anti-Bansky rant was distributed around London in The Blog Paper and continued with getting very pleasantly freaked out by Ron Mueck's Wild Man at Manchester Art...
View ArticleWhat would be in your dream art collection?
A Collector's Eye is an exhibition of paintings from the Schorr Collection assembled by a private collector, and it opens at the Walker Art Gallery next week. The exhibition promises to feature five...
View ArticleFarewell A Foundation
Farewell A Foundation, we barely knew ye…. Well, I – still a fairly recent import to this city – did anyway. With the news that A Foundation is now no more, I was initially reticent about joining in...
View ArticleAnxious about the arts...
Anyone else feeling a tad demoralised? Yesterday, as Arts Council England announced it’s funding settlements for what are now National Portfolio Organisations, was pretty nerve-wracking. As it turns...
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British Art: 1880-1950 @ Walker & Knowledge Lives Everywhere @ FACT
Recently it’s seemed like nearly everything is geared towards children and their keepers. I’ve known since I started writing this blog that if I was chronicling my ongoing adventures with a small...
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Glee - A Confession
For someone who used her 4 years at university to grapple with the most esoterically, historically pointless subjects she could find - Victorian polar explorers, Crimean war memorials and mezzotints...
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