The paintings in room one of Glenn Brown’s exhibition at Tate Liverpool are versions of sci-fi sublime: science fiction landscapes with cities on planets, swirling gas-clouds and nebulae with space stations.  These are huge wall-sized canvases; often enlarged from small air-brush cartoons in sci-fi magazines.  Brown’s debts to the romantic sublime of John Martin are … Continue reading Glenn Brown at Tate Liverpool; George Always, Portraits of George Melly by Maggi Hambling, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool