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Art & Creativity, Liverpool Biennial / 08 Aug 2012 / 3 comments

Feature: The Wonder Stuff: The Liverpool Biennial 2012

Unplanned pregnancies, migrating birds, fatal diseases…or you? What shapes do unexpected guests take? And how will they be received? David Lloyd talks to Biennial’s Artistic Director, Sally Tallant.

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Art & Creativity, Liverpool Biennial / 08 Aug 2012 / 2 comments

Feature: The Real Scouse Brow

It’s all change at Everton this season. And they might be getting a new ground after all. But wait, we’re talking Everton Brow here. And we’re talking environmental artists. Of course…

Art & Creativity / 08 Aug 2012 / 8 comments

Feature: Liverpool: A Story in Seven Album Sleeves

What’s your favourite Liverpool album cover? No, please don’t say Sgt Pepper’s. Have a proper think. Paul Du Noyer has, and his talk next month at The Bluecoat promises a celebration of this fast-disappearing art form…

/ 08 Aug 2012 / 3 comments

Feature: Percy Gulliver’s Printshop and Social returns to the city

We absolutely loved Percy Gulliver’s when it opened for a brief period last year. Set in a previously closed storefront on Bold Street, it was a perfect example of Liverpool’s ‘can do’ gung ho brilliance:….

Art & Creativity / 07 Jul 2012 / 30 comments

Feature: Don’t Tell Us What To Think About Art

How much is too much? And why does the latest exhibition at the Bluecoat leave David Lloyd angry and more than a little confused? It’s the latest example of arts organisations telling us what it all means…

Art & Creativity / 07 Jul 2012 / 3 comments

Feature: New Pavilion for Tate

As the Biennial gets ever closer, we take a look at some of the stuff we’re getting excited about. First up, the wonderful new space that will take shape down at the Albert Dock…

Art & Creativity / 07 Jul 2012

Feature: Urban Safari: Call For Cyclists

Want to discover the hidden beauty on your doorstep? Environmental artist Kerry Morrison invites us all to get on our bike and enjoy an urban safari with a twist…

Art & Creativity / 07 Jul 2012 / 1 comment

Feature: All Change on Hope Street

Two of our venerable, and most exciting cultural spaces are getting the Joan Rivers treatment: and promise, when the wraps are taken off, to be fresher, fitter and sexier than ever. But it all costs…

Art & Creativity / 06 Jun 2012

Feature: Uncomfortable Viewing Hour

Truth, faith, terrorism and immigration. By examining them forensically, and humanely, Wirral artist and film maker, Duncan Pickstock forces us to reassess our own values too.

/ 06 Jun 2012 / 1 comment

Feature: City’s cultural cash funding announced for 2012: who got what?

This year’s ACIP has been announced. What’s that? Basically, it’s a load of money the council give out to the city’s arts and cultural organisations. It’s designed to boost the city’s cultural offer, get people….

Art & Creativity / 05 May 2012

Feature: A Wing and a Prayer

A striking new exploration of man’s hostility to the natural world, and a celebration of Liverpool’s ornithological heritage opens this week…

Art & Creativity / 04 Apr 2012 / 1 comment

Feature: Liverpool Artists: Your City Needs You

It’s been a turbulent year for our art scene with closures, cuts and departures. But May sees a 31 day festival of forward thinking about this city’s resurgent creative community…

/ 03 Mar 2012

Feature: Calmer chameleon: how CALM’s brilliant book came into being

We’re proud of CALM. A local charity, doing incredible work for people right across the country. It’s an amazing achievement. As you might know already (read SevenStreets’ Tom Harcastle’s piece on his own struggle with….