Short-run show for artist, Brendan Lyons, who has previously exhibited at the John Moores Painting Prize (2020) and as part of 2022′s Refractive Pool. Here, Lyons displays more than 20 small scale ...

“The exhibition attempts to draw comparison with gender discourse in a historical context.” Curator Stephen Clarke introduces As She Likes It: Christine Beckett, a new photography exhibition ...

“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 of photography currently on ...

An experimental and hypnotic film made with Super 8, Jarman’s The Last of England is a scathing attack on the state of Thatcherite Britain, homophobia and the treatment of AIDS victims, finds Adam ...

Arts and culture organisations have been anxiously waiting for their fates to be revealed this morning, as Arts Council England finally announce who gets the 2023-26 round of ‘National Portfolio ...

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

In an exclusive extract from his new book with Thames & Hudson, on Derek Jarman’s famous coastal cottage, top photographer Gilbert McCarragher speaks movingly about what an artist’s home represents to ...

“Tt became apparent that these photographs of Pompeii could stand in for Chester.” Stephen Clarke on Up Deva!, an exhibition drawing inspiration from sources as ...

“Urban landscape and architecture are integral.” Anthony Ellis on how film can fix in our minds and memory a sense of place… General views are one of the more unusual aspects of filmmaking. They’re ...

“Doing better is the overarching motif of Kaleidoscopic Realms.” Mike Pinnington on a group exhibition putting learning disabled and neurodivergent artists front and centre… Kaleidoscopic: having ...

Drawing. It’s something we all do, until we don’t. When asked, all too early, to put aside so-called childish things – fairy tales, toys, play in general – art, and often drawing specifically, goes ...

“Truth, pretending, endings, and the stories we necessarily tell ourselves and each other.” Ellie Hoskins on a fragmentary and poetic debut novel by Roy Claire Potter… A good book, to me, feels like a ...