Ambivalent, ironic, alienating. There is a prolonged moment at the beginning of director Alex Ross Perry’s documentary, Pavements, where you get a sense of what it must have been like as an unwitting ...

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

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 ...

Liverpool Biennial 2025: BEDROCK, proposes, says director Sam Lackey, to explore and expose the city’s foundations, by ...

Talking to The Wastes “Truth, pretending, endings, and the stories we necessarily tell ourselves and each other.” Ellie Hoskins on a fragmentary and poetic debut novel by Roy Claire Potter… A good ...

Look And Look Again: David Ferry Ever compared Venice to Blackpool? Stephen Clarke takes a closer look at the aesthetics of the two cities through David Ferry’s elusive and mischievous photomontage… ...

Filming alone, without a crew and seeing hardly any passers by for three days, was a much harder prospect than originally expected. He even got stuck for hours in a muddy Holloway with no way out ...

Too Good To Hide: Tony Hayes “He takes up the invitation to look, but also takes possession without payment – a visual act of shoplifting.” Curator Stephen Clarke on Too Good To Hide, a new exhibition ...

The Plant That Stowed Away – Reviewed A new exhibition at Tate Liverpool takes as its departure point the docks on which the building stands, before plunging us into the depths and beyond. Mike ...

Culture Diary w/c 16-06-2025 Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond… Monday – Continuing: Liverpool Biennial 2025: BEDROCK – FREE The 13th edition ...

“We’re the ones that care about the industry; the ones that want to change the world.” – Choose Your Own Adventure “In a world that’s been gamified to within an inch of its life, maybe indulging in ...