Author: Desmond Bullen
Book Review: A Version of the Truth by B.P. Walter
Appearances can be deceptive.
Book Review: These Northern Types, edited by Oli Bentley
Ambitious in the best sense of the word, These Northern Types is nothing less than a frequently discursive disquisition on the nature of Northernness as unapologetically contrary as the North itself.
Review – Martin Parr: Return to Manchester, Manchester Art Gallery
Martin Parr has the subtle knack of locating the delightful in the mundane, the unlikely in the familiar, inviting us to look twice where we might long since have failed to notice.
Review – Drawing The Modern: The Work of Gordon Hodkinson, Manchester Metropolitan University
Over the past decade, there’s been a parabolic swell of a very particular appreciation for modernist architecture, best exemplified by Manchester’s (and now Sheffield’s) Modernist Society.
Review – William Kentridge: Thick Time, The Whitworth, Manchester
Crossing the threshold into William Kentridge’s puzzle box of a touring exhibition, presently awaiting discovery at the edges of Manchester’s Whitworth, is a subtly, if pleasurably, disorientating experience, as though its terrain was the lens of a kaleidoscope at the moment a determined shift of the instrument brings the same fragments into a different focus.
“If the city had a voice, where would you hear it?” Northern Soul chats to author Ben Webster
Ben Webster finds himself in a curious position.
Book Review: We Were Strangers – Stories Inspired by Unknown Pleasures edited by Richard V. Hirst
Viewed decades later, the sleeve of Unknown Pleasures anticipates the after-effects of the vinyl it enfolds: its image the radiation signature of a star long dead, its transmissions still detectable by those with ears to hear.
Book Review – Hometown Tales: Lancashire by Jenn Ashworth and Benjamin Webster
Like Dial-a-Disc or foil disposable ashtrays in takeaways, the cinema double bill has receded into the lint of a barely conceivable past yet to be reappropriated by the stylists of today’s lazy nostalgia.
Review: Madagascar The Musical, Palace Theatre, Manchester
The kids love it. They shriek, they cackle, and – to the insistent cue of I Like To Move It – they dance in their seats.
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