MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
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Arts ahead: July 19 2018
Photography: New Brighton Revisited, Liverpool Biennial, Music: HebCelt festival, Stornoway, Theatre: The Prisoner, Edinburgh, Music Theatre: Xuanzang’s Pilgrimage, London
PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
The missing sister, the vengeful WAG, cruise ship claustrophobia, and reanimated Avengers
Three great releases of lost concerts by Duke Ellington Orchestra, John Taylor & Stan Sulzman, and Joe Henderson
To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
NEW BRIGHTON PHOTOGRAPHY
New Brighton Revisited
Until August 25
The Sailing School, Marine Point
This group show, part of the Liverpool Biennial, brings together for the first time the New Brighton pictures of internationally renowned photographers Martin Parr, Ken Grant and Tom Wood.
It records three decades of New Brighton through the eyes of the photographers as they lived and worked there, with all three discovering a fascination and beauty in the town's streets, seafront, visitors and residents.
Each photographer has captured, in their individual styles, moments of the town’s life from the late 1970s to the end of the 1990s.
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