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...

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...

Culture Diary w/c 20-01-2025. Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond… Monday – Sexy Beast 7.45pm @ FACT Liverpool – £8 Jonathan Glazer’s 2023 Auschwitz drama The Zone of Interest saw the director garner critical acclaim resulting in five Oscar nominations.

Jan 27, 2025 · Polyester 8.50pm @ FACT Liverpool – £8.50. Divine plays suburban housewife Francine Fishpaw in John Waters’ Polyester, which sees Francine’s world in freefall owing to a cheating pornographer husband, pregnant teenage daughter, and foot-fetishist son; relief arrives in the form of the wonderfully named (as is FF, of course) Todd Tomorrow.

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 ...

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’.

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.

A Reckoning: Liverpool Biennial – Reviewed. For the 12th edition of Liverpool Biennial, curator Khanyisile Mbongwa said she had been tasked with using art as a means to “move through the woundedness” of global and local traumas, both past and present.