An online magazine featuring the latest arts, design, film & music coverage in the UK. Our mission: to hold a mirror up to the national -- in particular the North-West -- art scene and reflect it, uncovering and analysing the talent based here.

Culture Diary w/c 27-01-2025. Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond… Monday – Independent Venues Week Various Venues across the UK – £Various The equation is perfectly simple: you get to...

From Shaw’s Weeds of Wallasey on the Wirral, we find ourselves hurtle back through time, making landfall on the opposite side of the river. Atkinson Grimshaw’s Liverpool Quay by Moonlight (1887) pictures the then brave new world of horse and cart, riding upon cobbled roads flanked on the one side by masts of ships and on the other by merchants’ shops – in which the latest exotic goods ...

Culture Diary w/c 03-02-2025. Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond… Monday – Exhibition Continues: Between the Earth and the Sky @ New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery, Salford University – FREE...

Jan 24, 2025 · The wording, like the vibe CERN projects to the world, is optimistic and ambitious. It puts one in mind of (and surely in-part inspired) Simon Stålenhag’s 1980s rural Sweden-set Tales From the Loop (TFtL), in which the author reimagines the country’s government as having established the world’s largest particle accelerator in 1954. This also happens to be the year its real-life analogue ...

“An Intriguing Proposition” Art Plays Games “Gaming has earned its place at the table.” With a new exhibition collapsing disciplinary boundaries between contemporary art and gaming, Mike Pinnington considers the medium’s growing confidence and ambition…

Culture Diary w/c 30-09-2024. Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond… Monday – Exhibition Continues: Dorothy X Tracy Worrall @ Dorothy, Baltic Triangle, Liverpool – FREE For the last four years, illustrator Tracy Worrall has worked on cross party weekly, The House, ‘the leading publication for MPs and peers’.

Jan 8, 2025 · Training his lens on a plethora of subcultures, photographer David Wright’s Tribes of England captures those enjoying the liberation of choice… In an infamous exchange, Lady Susan Hussey – a British noblewoman who served as ‘Woman of the Bedchamber’ and, later, ‘Lady of the Household ...

An online magazine featuring the latest arts, design, film & music coverage in the UK. Our mission: to hold a mirror up to the national -- in particular the North-West -- art scene and reflect it, uncovering and analysing the talent based here.

About Us . Contemporary, independent arts and culture criticism since 2011: platforming writers and artists from the North of England. We are a Liverpool-based magazine (online and occasional print) featuring critical analysis, interviews, reviews, essays, experimental texts and commentary on under-the-radar culture.