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You Can Wake Me Up Now
Green Day’s album American Idiot will be remembered as one of the great post-millennial testaments of resistance. It captures the…
Fun, frocks and serious experience
Being a thespian is almost synonymous with being English. In fact the people of the UK are so consistently wild…
Your Gallery at The Saatchi Gallery
A new virtual gallery set up by British mega-art-patron and artist king-maker Charles Saatchi is opening doors for emerging talent…
Smorgasbord for the senses
As the place where the spinning jenny and the computer were invented, Manchester is often touted as the world’s first…
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…
Cause for alarmism?
Do powerful new measures introduced into British law with the Terrorism Act 2006, ostensibly to help the police and law…
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…
Making art in Nicosia - Richard Wentworth
When British sculptor Richard Wentworth received an invitation to spend several months making art in the divided city of Nicosia,…
Greenland Street
The question rattling around many a Liverpudlian head right now must be something like: “Do we really need another arts…
Sue Cook: Artist, Mother, Web Entrepreneur
Sue Cook apparently “came out of nowhere” in July of this year, to win a highly regarded visual arts prize…