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The humour lands, but the force sits underneath it. Voice becomes strategy, accent becomes passage. Talent alone is not ...

That sits at the centre of Mythos Ragnarök, but Gamester and his troupe push it further, louder, more visceral. Every clash ...

The Photo North festival was back for three packed days of talks, screenings and conversation woven around the Carriageworks in Leeds. On Saturday, Carolyn Mendelsohn opened the talks with an ...

Inside and outside the Grundy, casting aside the overcast, Blackpool is putting on its lippy and squeezing into its glad rags ...

The synergy of the artists’ respective approaches working in array, Broken Ecologies exemplifies exactly the kind of soft power that demagogues both deny and decry. Their reaction is the opposite of ...

Moreover, in the types of emporia they represent, they act as tidal markers of the ebb and flow of the high street, paper memorials to chains which are no longer extant. In this respect, an early ...

For the British Textile Biennial 2025, artists and makers filled spaces – which previously, directly or indirectly, powered Lancashire’s cotton industry – with stories of innovation in textile ...

When the city’s fluorescence, its frenetic denial of night, has started to lose its fascination, there will always be those who take flight to the imagined countryside. Habituated, however, to their ...

As I explain the plot of The Pied Piper of Hamelin to my 13-year-old niece, I watch her expression turn to horror. “Well, there’s this piper who is asked to rid a town of a rat infestation. He plays ...

There’s a raw moment at the close of The Ladies Football Club which brings home how drastically life has changed in the last century. Violet, the instigator of a Sheffield munitions factory’s women’s ...

It smells the same, but looks different. The famous Power Hall at Manchester’s Science & Industry Museum – that warehouse of steam-powered engines, heaving hydraulics and giant trains – has reopened, ...