Review: In Seven Days at The Walker

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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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Walker Art Gallery: In Seven Days

Kicking off their 2013 programme, the Walker hosts the first European display of a series of stunning silkscreen prints, which tell the story of Obama’s legendary 2008 presidential campaign. In Seven Days…, a study by the artist Nicola Green of this historic event, which saw the election of the USA’s first Black president, goes on [...]

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Last Chance To See: 7 Exhibitions Closing This Month

The New Year spells the end for a number of long-running - and not-so-long-running - exhibitions in Liverpool. This is your last chance to see the following art in Liverpool…

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Love Your Galleries This Christmas

You know what SevenStreets loves to do between Christmas and New Year (if that walk to Moel Famau is rained off?) - go visit an art gallery. There’s something about their hushed, contemplative surroundings that acts like a sorbet on frazzled palettes. Just a mooch around the pre-Raphaelites of the Lady Lever, the history of [...]

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Eavesdropping on Art

Does the Walker’s collection talk to you? If so, what does it say? That’s the intriguing starting point for a series of free performances taking place at the gallery this week (15 - 17 November) by artist Aaron Williamson (pic). With Walker’s super-sized Victorian canvasses framing many a gripping tale, Williamson researched the collection and [...]

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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 colliding of cultures, the classical and the modern, LGBT and mainstream would be apparent throughout the afternoon, but never more [...]

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Celebrating Painting: John Moores Summit

“I’ve always found the cyclical nature of things to be incredibly life affirming,” says Sarah Pickstone of her work, Stevie Smith and the Willow, this year’s winner of the John Moores Painting Prize (she’s pictured above with judge, Sir Peter Blake). In a Biennial brimming with conceptual art - a huge black pillow here, a [...]

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Biennial Radar: The Walker Art Gallery

We’ve enjoyed a roll call of excellent exhibitions up William Brown Street of late. So we’re hoping their Biennial strand keeps the standard high. We caught up with them to discover what’s in store over the next few months. What’s Happening? The John Moores Painting Prize is an eclectic display of themes, techniques and approaches [...]

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