News From Nowhere has represented a defiant independence in Liverpool now for thirty five years. It has stood by and watched similar ventures collapse, and managed to seem invulnerable. Of course anything built with a radical motif is very vulnerable, and it has been hit hard by recession, internet shopping and possibly by Liverpool Council's determination to sanitise the city.
Ian Jackson from Artinliverpool.com interviewing Wayne and Jack Hemmingway at the This is Sculpture exhibition at Tate Liverpool
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Listen to the Liverpool Art Prize awards as they were announced
From Liverpool Art Prize 2009 |
Italian born pop culture photographer
He's current show at Liverpool conservation centre is a great snapshot of the Liverpool Club scene with images covering the 4 years from 1978-82.
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Maggie Hambling is interviewed here about her current exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery - George Always.
She descibes George as "Lusche" - not the correct spelling. This is a great interview just to hear Maggie talk so passionately about someone she loved so much - a man sorely missed but who she has captured on canvas many times. Stick with the interview as it just gets better and better.
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