The Royal Liver Building atrium has been turned into a temporary art gallery.
I popped along last night for the opening of the New Middle Kingdom exhibition of contemporary Chinese art.
There is some interesting work in there. My favourite bits of the exhibition were the photographs by Wange Ningde (especially one of a cycling man on a rise with clouds behind him) and by Beijing-based Liu Bolin who took striking images of himself "camouflaged" against backdrops such as the cenotaph and a red phone box by the Town Hall when he visited Liverpool earlier in the year.
While the artwork is interesting, the bonus is that members of the public get to wander inside the Liver Building itself - at least into its atrium - where they can't normally go.
Unfortunately they still won't be able to do what we did last night (glass of bubbly in hand) - enjoy the views from the building's rooftop itself.
The current exhibition runs until July 4 and then the gallery structure will stay for the remainder of the summer to display other exhibitions including artwork done by Liverpool schoolchildren.
