Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience will be back at the waterfront Exhibition Centre Liverpool from July 15 to August 3. The multimedia experience, which premiered in the city in 2024, will run alongside a new show, Beyond Monet, which will also make its UK debut in Liverpool. (Image: Peter Freeth) Beyond Van Gogh and
Buoyed on by the release of a new movie starring Adrien Body (appropriately called The Brutalist) efforts have been revived to try and get London’s landmark slab of concrete – the Southbank Centre – listed to prevent it from future alterations or even demolition. Elsewhere in the world, Chicago’s edgy 1960s City Hall has just
I’m not ashamed to admit it – I do read prose books. However, being a writer and artist of graphic novels, I find myself obliged to choose one in order to champion the form in general – it’s Art Spiegelman’s Maus. Dealing with the harrowing wartime experiences of his father, Vladek, a Polish Jew and
The show will run from February 26 to March 1, at the Helmsley Arts Centre. First performed in Paris in 1994, the play has won numerous awards, including the Molière Awards for Best Play, Production, and Author in 1994, and the Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy in 1996. The play poses the question of
Longford Park Primary School in Banbury has unveiled the installation by artist Emma Cox. The art, which is suspended from the ceiling of the school hall, is titled ‘The Garden of Imagination’. The aerial sculpture was inspired by the “beauty and vibrancy of the natural world”, in particular flowers, leaves and hummingbirds, creating a “bright
A coalition of more than 20 UK organisations have unveiled a campaign seeking to put arts subjects at the heart of teaching at British schools. It is the first major movement of its kind since last year’s general election. The campaign, Arts and Minds, is led by the National Education Union (NEU) and organised together
A race against time is now beginning to try and fit-out the museum to ensure it opens this year as The Hub Consulting Limited take on the work to get all 18 galleries and library along with a new café, shop and event space ready. Cabinet member for culture and arts at the city council,
Steve McQueen’s film installation Grenfell (2019), which shows the remains of the London tower block destroyed by a fire in 2017, will tour to six UK cities over the next three years. Grenfell was first presented in 2023 at the Serpentine Galleries in London, and then entered the collections of the Tate and the London
Joshua Reynolds’s famed Portrait of Mai (around 1776)—which was jointly acquired by the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in London and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles in 2023—is embarking on a UK tour, taking in Bradford, Cambridge and Plymouth. The Reynolds work, which depicts a Tahitian man known as Mai (around 1753-80) who
It’s the month of love, and there’s plenty to make your heart swell if you’re an art fan. London’s museums and galleries are in full swing, with shows of everything from impressionism to conceptualism. The days are getting brighter, the art is getting better, things are looking up. Seven London art exhibition to see in