Ambivalent, ironic, alienating. There is a prolonged moment at the beginning of director Alex Ross Perry’s documentary, ...

The latest Liverpool Arab Arts Festival arrives this Friday. Here, Mike Pinnington takes a trip through some of 2025′s not-to-be-missed highlights… Just like that, we’re well into July, and ...

Askance tales of a storied city, New York 1995–1996 is photographer Stephen Clarke’s record of a “brief moment” that ...

Across A Painted Sea: Cian Quayle Visiting Cian Quayle’s retrospective Points Of Departure at the Grosvenor Museum, Stephen Clarke finds a photographer enamoured with the call of the sea… The ...

Veronica Watson: All Together Now “A feeling, a period, a mood.” Mike Pinnington on Veronica Watson, whose portraits – celebrated in new publication All Together Now – currently adorn the Bluecoat’s ...

An Introduction To Psychogeography Psychogeography is more than the psychological effects of the urban environment, argues Maisie Ridgway. Here, she explains why the movement has become a political ...

The Word On The Street: Liverpool In Literature “From the situatedness of the city through to the mediated experience of the symbolic plane.” Anthony Ellis takes a look, via various Liverpool streets ...

The Painter Who Changed My Mind: Helene Schjerfbeck “My routine and by now automatic dismissal of portraiture was over.” Mike Pinnington on Helene Schjerfbeck, the painter that changed his mind… In my ...