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Review: Mak?ng Sense at Fallout Factory

More akin to a ‘happening’ than a conventional art show, ‘Mak?ng Sense’ immediately confronts expectations and boundaries. The first encounter on entering the gallery is a giant purple seed pod made from various textiles -….

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Review: Tim Hetherington at Open Eye

The front line isn’t modern warfare’s ultimate advance. It’s not some impregnable steel corridor straight out of Call of Duty. The front line is warm, and soft. In its fitful sleep it dreams of wives….

Review: David Hockney, Early Reflections

Pert peaches, plump melons, curvaceous cantaloupes, however you take your bottoms you’ll get your five a day in one sitting at Walker/Homotopia’s David Hockney exhibition. The man, it has to be said, knows his way….

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Review: Turning FACT Inside Out

Ten years on and FACT is breaking out of its physical boundaries with a dizzying, playful and occasionally bemusing new exhibition.

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Review: Chagall, Modern Master, at Tate Liverpool

If ever there was a time for a Chagall reassessment, it’s now. Accused of wearing his heart on his sleeve a little too willingly, the man’s stock value’s plummeted in recent years. But a saunter….

Review: The Art of Pop, FACT

So I’m wandering around The Art of Pop at Fact, making notes into my iPhone, deconstructing the concepts, contextualising the cultural signifiers and generally being a twat. Then I stop, and decide to just bloody….

Review: In Seven Days at The Walker

Barack Obama proves an elusive figure to pin down in this exhibition on his election campaign, but the journey is rewarding.

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FACT: Winter Sparks

There is, undoubtedly, lots of science behind FACT’s new Winter Sparks show. But, like those Christmas Royal Institution lectures, our advice is to skip the boring backstory and just indulge in the sensory thrill of….

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Review: Tracing the Century, Tate

It’s no accident that the posters for the Tate’s first post-Biennial show features a cosy pair of gonads. They’re a statement of intent. You think, after the knotty machinations of the Biennial, that drawing has….

Review: Archetype, Homotopia

Archetype is an annual feature of Homotopia, described as a romp around the Walker Art Gallery with your host, the performance artist David Hoyle. It is, needless to say, not your usual guided tour… This….

Review: Curve Gallery

The long night always generates an electric artistic buzz in the pool of life.Venturing up the epic New York esque stairwell of the CURVE gallery, one hyper active guy rattled off the list of venues….

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Biennial Review: Fallout Factory

If you like your art to be fun and provocative, the Fallout Factory’s new show will be just up your street (Dale Street, to be precise). To provide an antithesis to the Liverpool Biennial, their….

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Review: Turner Monet Twombly, at Tate

The Tate summer show is set to be one of the most successful in its history - with good reason: Turner Monet Twombly has ‘must see’ written all over it.