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It had 7,000 events, involving 10,000 artists and 60 premieres. But was Liverpool’s year of culture a success? Alfred Hickling of the Guardian gives his verdict. I have a special interest in this event because Liverpool is my birth city.
La Machine giant spider “La Princesse”
measuring 50ft by 65ft and weighing 37-ton,
hangs from the side of the
Concourse Tower in Liverpool.
Photograph: PA/Dave Thompson
Liverpool’s year as European capital of culture comes to an end this Saturday, with a handing-over ceremony to Linz in Austria and Vilnius in Lithuania against the backdrop of the historic waterfront. But the festivities will have to disguise the fact that the £100m redevelopment of this World Heritage site is far from complete. The city has planned a festival of sound and light, in which images of the year will be beamed across the facade of the new Museum of Liverpool Life - even though the building will not open until 2010.
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