Disc Unknown by Joe O’Rourke, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
The city is a particle accelerator, a vast experiment, endlessly generating chance and clutter. In...
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Author: Desmond Bullen
The People’s Stage: bidding for City of Culture at Blackpool Opera House
The Tower has always been a compass, pointing North with something of the same self-assurance that...
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Whistle Down The Wind, Nancy Collantine, UNITOM, Manchester
There’s a sense in which abstraction runs counter to consciousness, reasserting the disorder...
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Happiness! The Ken Dodd Exhibition, Showtown, Blackpool
On an atypically sweltering Blackpool afternoon, Vengaboys are belting out the tinny gospel of...
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10 x 10, Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester
There’s an art to parting, a chance to frame the end credits on one’s own terms. As it...
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