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Artist lays down the law on globalisation

TRADE, democracy and globalisation are all under the microscope as part of a long-term art project currently docked in Liverpool. Read

Eastern show as Korean culture sets out its city stall

LIVERPOOL continues to show it really is the world in one city with the start of a three-day festival dedicated to the best of Korean culture. Read

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La Machine on shortlist for regional art08 award

LA Machine, Dadafest and Biennial director Lewis Biggs are all in the running for an art08 award for their dedication to arts in the region. Read

Stuckists return to free-thinking home

THE Stuckists are back. Returning to the Liverpool Biennial and wreaking their continuing challenge on what they call the “ghastly” Turner Prize, members of the international painting movement are currently staging a major show at the View Two gallery. Read

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Images of birds in feast of art

THE whitewashed windows of a new city centre restaurant have been livened up by a temporary art installation. Read

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Liverpool Biennial: Come along for the Made Up Weekend

A FOUNDATION at Greenland Street is hosting a weekend of talks, performance and film to tie in with the ongoing Liverpool Biennial. Read

Travelling artwork takes up residence in city hotel room

ART finds its way into some unusual places during the Biennial, and one exhibition is moving into a Liverpool hotel room for the rest of the week. Read

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Yoko Ono visits Liverpool to look at ladders

YOKO ONO returned to Liverpool yesterday for a whistle-stop visit to see how her own Biennial exhibition has taken shape. Read

Artist Tracy Lewis, with some of her work

Mirrors and roses reflect artful dream

DREAMS and nature come together in the beautiful work of Hightown artist Tracy Lewis, now on show in two city centre galleries. Read

Key Liverpool Arts Events

BIENNIAL: Made Up at the Bluecoat considers fabricated pasts and imagined futures of utopian worlds. Read

Artists driven to create at old garage

INTRIGUING installation Art in the Car Park, featuring the work of a collective of London-based artists, can currently be found occupying two floors of the old CCP space on Duke Street. Read

Holly Johnson

Holly Johnson: Can't take Liverpool out of the boy

HOLLY Johnson is back where he belongs. Best known as the flamboyant frontman of Eighties enfant terribles of pop Frankie Goes to Hollywood, he has forged a successful second career as an artist and some of his work can now be seen as part of the Fellow Travellers exhibition, showing at the Novas centre as part of the Independents Biennial. Read

Dusko Sibl paints Max Rothwell for the Unity production

Time at the Unity Theatre fuses painting and performance

AN EXCITING new piece of theatre merging performance, painting, music and film comes to Liverpool this week. Read

Art faithful flock to church for one of the biggest exhibitions marking Biennial celebrations

CHURCHES in Liverpool city centre have been turned into many different things over the years, from restaurants to flats. Read

Le Corbusier exhibition at Liverpool's Metropolitan Cathedral

Godfather of modern architecture

An exhibition about controversial architect Le Corbusier has opened in Liverpool. Laura Davis takes a look Read

Key Liverpool Arts Events

BIENNIAL: John Moores Prizewinners 1957-2006, a selection of main prize-winners from John Moores Liverpool exhibitions since 1957. Read

Cathedral crypt perfect place for Le Corbusier designs

AN EXHIBITION dedicated to the “single most influential architect of the 20th century” opens today just yards away from Liverpool buildings based on his work. Read

Hope Street Project

Liverpool Cathedrals’ laser link-up conveys hopes for future

THERE’S much more to the striking ray of green light that has appeared in Liverpool’s night sky than meets the eye – or even ear. Read

Mural is a recycled vision of the universe

THE Novas Contemporary Urban Centre, on Greenland Street, is one of the real hubs of the Independent Biennial, holding a variety of exhibitions during the festival. Read

David Knopov with his Hilda Ogden prints

Who wants Marilyn Monroe when there’s our Hilda?

A FAMILIAR face in an unfamiliar guise will be greeting diners at one of the city’s best restaurants. Read