Liverpool Biennial – review | Art and design | The Observer

25Sep12

Can art save a city? Probably not, at least not in the way usually put forward by proponents of “culturally led regeneration”, the idea that some wacky sculptures and purposeless Kunsthalles can raise places from the mire. Then again, in Liverpool, a city that over decades has been punched in the face and kneed in the groin by politicians, two small initiatives by artists are creating rare alternatives. Together with the efforts of Save Britain’s Heritage, they offer glimmers of hope where there has not been very much.

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