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...
View ArticleLast Chance To See: 7 Exhibitions Closing This Month
Don’t you hate it when you earmark an exhibition for a few weeks down the line, only to kick yourself when you realise you’ve missed the damn thing? Well of course you do – it’s a fundamentally...
View ArticleWalker 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...
View ArticleReview: In Seven Days at The Walker
Looking at the wealth of documentary evidence that has gone into compiling Nicola Green’s In Seven Days, an exhibition on Barack Obama researched over a week on the campaign trail back in 2008, it’s...
View ArticleA Time Of Waste: Strangers In A Strange Land
Initially people seem unsure of whether they’ve stumbled across a new exhibit or a work in progress. Indeed, Strangers In A Strange Land, the new exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery by Robyn Woolston...
View ArticleWin a Signed Copy of Robyn Woolston’s Latest Book
Liverpool Art Prize winner, Robyn Woolston is one of the city’s most engaging and exciting artists – raising questions, encouraging conversations and traversing the gap between ourselves and our...
View ArticleNew Works at the Walker: “It Is A Celebration”
As mission statements go, New Works at the Walker Art Gallery is a powerful one. The new centrepiece exhibition feels like equal parts celebration, showcase and statement of intent – with works that...
View ArticleGet Hockneyed Up: a David Hockney Night School
As part of Homotopia, Britain’s greatest living painter (in our humble opinion) is given the flashback treatment: Hockey’s scratchy, urgent and deeply personal early works show an artist grappling with...
View ArticleReview: 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,...
View ArticleWhy The Pre-Raphaelites Kick Ass
They might look like they’re fated forever to be walk-ons in some celestial Bonnie Tyler video; flinging themselves listlessly over balustrades, surviving on nothing but Angel Delight and miazma on a...
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