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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…
Cultural Places: For a new demographic
"'New demographic' is a term blissfully unknown in the academic literature; Google Scholar, the standard source, contains not a single…
Talented writers declare yourselves!
In the last few years there’s been a lot of public and media moaning about the apparent lack of “truly…
Fostering trust through culture
In a world of raging ideologies, cultural misapprehensions and seemingly endless warfare, The Pakistan Cultural Society’s (PCS) Muslim Arts Festival…