Art My final brush with National Museums Liverpool is the Walker Art Gallery and a reminder of projects otherwise ongoing. It hasn’t es...

Art To the Horseshoe Gallery at Liverpool’s World Museum (so called because internally it’s shaped like a horseshoe) (it even has curvy ...

Art Goodness know what the attendant at the Museum of Liverpool thought as I approached him this morning with my hands around either side...

Art   With Exchange Flags I've reached the mid-point of this project or adventure of visiting all the Biennial venues in numerical or...

Art Apart from Wyatt and Westmacott’s horrific and glorious Nelson Monument at the centre, Exchange Flags will always be synonymous, at ...

Art The Guardian's G2 supplement is 20 and although its essentialness has ebbed and flowed across the years, there's always, some...

Books  Apart from contemporary Earth, one Doctor Who’s primary narrative fascinations is the far future and humanity’s part of it.  In ...

Art  As I type this, I’m trying to remember the last time I visited St George’s Hall on Lime Street.  Not just wandered around outside o...

Film  Camille Paglia's audio commentary for Basic Instinct is a classic of the form, if the form is free form feminist academia.  Over ...

Art The first thing you notice on entering the Heyworth Street entrance of Everton Park, as directed by the Biennial booklet, is the vi...

Film   Well, this is one way to fix the fubar in the European pressing of The Avengers .

Audio  Earlier today, the BBC’s official Doctor Who website posted a short film , pieced together from bits of storyboard, a script by Chri...

Art Rather shamefully this is the first time I’ve visited The Royal Standard for no other reason than I have the geographical awarenes...

Art Metal is an arts organisation begun in 2002 which currently inhabits part of the shell of Edge Hill Station. For this Biennial, ra...

In their ongoing endeavour to make all the world's knowledge searchable, Google has teamed up with an array of museums and archives to p...

Art  My memory being what it is, I’m slowly forgetting the geography of the area that’s now Liverpool One.  I remember the massive Argos...

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Art With its main contribution to the Biennial elsewhere, Tate Liverpool this year have decided to utilise some gallery space to prese...

Politics In 2008, Aaron Sorkin scripted an encounter between Jed Bartlett and Barack Obama , the sum total of his advice being "Call ...