Walking into How I Am Monument feels like entering the excavation site of a 21st-century technocratic pharaoh.

I’ll be honest, I wasn’t optimistic about my new northern plot. Much of it consists of lawn, trimmed with narrow borders that, back in February, looked lacklustre and unlikely to put on a show once ...

I moved house earlier this year. While my new place is what estate agents euphemistically refer to as ‘a fixer-upper’, in ...

Main image: Ali Cherri: How I Am Monument (installation view), Secession, Vienna, 2024. Photo: © Ali Cherri Studio, courtesy the artist and Imane Farès, Paris.

Fittingly, it’s been there from the start. Salford’s Lowry theatre and gallery is celebrating its silver anniversary, and Going to the Match, L.S. Lowry’s depiction of Bolton Wanderers supporters ...

Hamlet Hail to the Thief is a co-production between the Royal Shakespeare Company and Factory International, running at Aviva Studios, home to Factory International, Manchester until May 18, 2025 ...

This month, Lincoln has been treated to Scarborough Macabre, an off-season sojourn to the seaside in which artist Melody Phelan-Clark “regurgitates the strange and sinister nature of the British coast ...

When I was asked to review the 18th anniversary menu at Vermilion, self-styled as ‘Manchester’s most glamorous restaurant’, I thought two things: (a) after 18 years, why haven’t I heard of it? And (b) ...