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As the place where the spinning jenny and the computer were invented, Manchester is often touted as the world’s first…
AIDS Awareness: A Dying Artform?
The start of the new millennium sees the AIDS pandemic enter its third decade. Tragically, the number of new infections…
The Art of Memory
It’s been five years since the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, where nearly 3,000…
A 'Design Tsar' for London?
Britain’s urban design has been a hot topic since architect Lord Rogers chaired a report in 1999 that concluded British…
Bring back the music ... without the hiss
Cutting edge audio technology allows old recordings by past masters to be stored for eternity and brought back to life…
Between kitsch and avant-garde
"Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind." So wrote Guillaume Apollinaire in 1912, in an effort to…
Cause for alarmism?
Do powerful new measures introduced into British law with the Terrorism Act 2006, ostensibly to help the police and law…
The art of reinvention
Just what are the forces driving our obsession with the contemporary art of adaptation? For up until recently and historically,…
The Changing Face Of Environmental Art
Since the turn of the millennium, world concern over environmental issues such as pollution and global warming has increased exponentially.…
e-fac 1.0?
Whenever pondering e-books, I feel like a nanna with a wonky walking frame. In the clash between the ambivalent and…