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

I moved house earlier this year. While my new place is what estate agents euphemistically refer to as ‘a fixer-upper’, in reality it’s a bungalow built in 1988 which has remained largely the same ...

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 ...

Walking into How I Am Monument feels like entering the excavation site of a 21st-century technocratic pharaoh. In the soft golden light, mud and bronze sculptures are backlit by expansive screens ...

When you move house, especially during winter, the garden is full of surprises. What is lurking beneath the soil? What will poke its head out in spring? Will there be summer colour? I’ll be honest, I ...

The walk from Newcastle train station to the Baltic was a balmy meander by the River Tyne laced with foaming cherry blossom and a chorus of gulls. It was my first visit to this former flour mill, but ...

It’s hard to overstate the significance of Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake, not only in the world of dance but in popular culture and societal attitudes. “There are very few works of art that change people ...

Anyone who knew me when I was 16 will know that Hamlet Hail to the Thief – ‘a frenetic adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, haunted by Radiohead’s Hail to the Thief’ – would’ve been bang in the middle ...