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Liverpool Biennial

March 2024

  • Kayus Bankole of Young Fathers.

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    On my radar: Kayus Bankole of Young Fathers’ cultural highlights

    The Scottish-Nigerian musician on taboo-breaking conversations, brutally honest images of apartheid and where to find the best akara falafel wrap

July 2023

  • Torkwase Dyson’s “Liquid a Place” (2021),

    Liverpool Biennial 2023 review – horror and healing

    At the 12th Liverpool Biennial, bold works from Isa do Rosário, Binta Diaw, Torkwase Dyson and more focus on colonialism and the slave trade. But the aim is to spiritually awaken rather than shock

June 2023

  • Audience in deck chairs at Birmingham 2022 Victoria Square Festival Site

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    Cheap thrills: the best free UK festivals of 2023

  • Liquid a Place by Torkwase Dyson at the Liverpool Biennial.

    Liverpool Biennial 2023 review – devastating insights into the horrors of slavery

May 2021

  • From left: Paula Rego - The Cadet and His Sister. British Museum exhibition on Nero. Samson Kambalu, Elephant Quilt 1

    Reopening culture
    From brutal Dubuffet to nice guy Nero: what to see as art exhibitions open

    As galleries reopen their doors, we preview a visual feast that includes Rodin, Eileen Agar, Paula Rego, Matthew Barney – and an out-of-body experience in Liverpool

March 2021

  • Linder’s photomontage mural in College Lane, one of several outdoor artworks commissioned by the festival.

    Liverpool Biennial review – bleeps, bones and a machine that curates

    Adding AI and more to its traditional art offerings, the festival’s theme of artistic experience shared through technology could not be more timely

January 2020

  • Linder

    Observer Design
    How the artist Linder went from Orgasm Addict to Chatsworth House

  • From left – Andy Warhol, Sheila Hicks, Zanele Muholi, Toyin Ojih Odutola, We Will Walk

    2020 culture preview
    Palette cleansers: our photography, art and architecture picks for 2020

October 2018

  • Tourism Drives Las Vegas Economy<br>LAS VEGAS, NV - JUNE 9: The newest attraction, "Seven Magic Mountains," an outdoor sculpture by artist Ugo Rondinone, is located in the desert 20 minutes south of The Strip off Interstate 15 as viewed on June 9, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Tourism in America's "Sin City" has, over the last several years, made a significant comeback following the Great Recession, with visitors filling the hotels, restaurants, and casinos in record numbers. (Photo by George Rose/Getty Images)

    A mountain for Merseyside: why have Las Vegas boulders landed in Liverpool?

    These seven stacks of lurid rocks are the latest must-see attraction in Vegas, delighting 16 million visitors. Can their maker work the same magic in Liverpool?

August 2018

  • The art project on a 280m hoarding on Great George Street, Liverpool has been repeatedly damaged, removed and targeted since it was installed.

    List of refugee deaths displayed by artist in Liverpool torn down again

  • Earlier versions of The List have appeared in other locations, including Amsterdam.

    Art project listing names of dead refugees and migrants is destroyed

July 2018

  • Liverpool Biennial 2018 Annie Pootoogook, Man Abusing His Partner, 2002, Collection of John and Joyce Price. Image courtesy Feheley Fine Arts

    Liverpool Biennial review – a beautiful, violent, explosive world

    There are head-butts and gougings in the Quaker Peace Garden and a woman is being attacked at FACT. Thank goodness for Francis Alÿs’s delightfully calming paintings of his travels …
  • People queue for tea and hot dogs. From The Last Resort 1983-85

    New Brighton revisited – three decades in pictures

    This group show brings together for the first time the New Brighton pictures of internationally renowned British photographers Martin Parr, Ken Grant and Tom Wood. Showing in the town from which the pictures stemmed, this exhibition records three decades of New Brighton through the eyes of the photographers as they lived and worked there
  • Ryan Gander: From five minds of great vision (The Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King disassembled and reassembled to conjure resting places in the public realm), 2018

    Liverpool Biennial 2018 review – the hunt for Merseyside treasures

    Spread out across the city, Liverpool’s 10th festival of contemporary art rewards those willing to search for its many highlights

June 2018

  • Lifejackets have become a striking symbol of the refugee crisis. This was one of 2,500 removed or discarded vests that formed a ‘lifejacket graveyard’ in Parliament Square to draw attention to the crisis in 2016

    The list
    The List: the 34,361 men, women and children who perished trying to reach Europe

  • Minton Floor, St George’s Hall

    On the tiles: Liverpool's treasures allowed to shine in 2018 Biennial

March 2018

  • Brian Jungen, Warrior 3, 2018

    Liverpool Biennial 2018 lineup takes global view in the age of Brexit

    Eurocentrism is out. This year’s art festival brings together indigenous artists from Canada and Australia, an Algerian healing garden and a British debut for veteran film-maker Agnès Varda

August 2016

  • Lara Favaretto’s Momentary Monument – The Stone<em> </em>(2016), in Toxteth. Photograph by Mark McNulty

    Liverpool Biennial 2016 review – it’s not up everyone’s street

    Despite the city’s fine locations, the Liverpool Biennial is a bit of a mess – but a few jewels gleam amid the litter

July 2016

  • Memorial to an abandoned community … Lara Favaretto’s Momentary Monument: The Stone (2016) in Rhiwlas Street, Toxteth, Liverpool.

    Liverpool Biennial review – litterbugs, light shows and left luggage

  • ‘There were reports of some kids being locked in tennis courts’ … the 1985 schoolchildren strike

    'We took on the Tories and won!' … why Liverpool's striking schoolkids are back

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