If you have visited Auckland Castle over the past few years, there’s a good chance you’ll have peered over the wall at the gardens laid out on the slopes below. It’s a feature of this Walled Garden that the surrounding wall — or at least the one running along the top — doesn’t thwart prying …
Change isn’t something to be undertaken lightly at a place like the Bowes Museum which has had since 1892 to embed itself in the affections of a great many people. But times do change and even a museum, however subtly, has to move with them if it’s to reach new audiences and remain relevant. It’s …
“It’s amazing. This is such a big thing for me,” says fine art student Blanka Olejniczak. “I’m just starting in this field and I’m so proud.” That’s understandable. We’re standing beside Blanka’s contribution to the latest exhibition at Hartlepool Art Gallery which features works by Andy Warhol, Édouard Manet, Barbara Hepworth and others. Drawing attention: …
You might envy the Northumberland neighbours of Fiona Ellis and Cinzia Hardy, writer and director respectively of a new touring show called Frognal & Fox — A Life in Song. Before getting to grips with the script, actors Jane Holman and Zoe Lambert had to learn the songs promised in the title. “We’ve had the …
Only a modest poster offers a clue as to what lies behind the grey door at 27 Fawcett Street, not far from the building that used to accommodate Sunderland City Library. But this is Abject Gallery and in a large and elegant upper room, flooded by natural light from above, is a dazzling array of …
The world’s in a mess what with war, climate change and political upheaval, and the truth, it’s true, has taken a battering of late. What better time then for the launch of a new TV news service, Truth News, fearless ferreter out of the facts? Whatever the response of the fictional viewing public, there was …
Most stories, give or take a chronological tweak, hang on a narrative thread with a beginning, middle and end (usually an end, although there’s always the possibility of a sequel). It keeps things tidy and helps to answer the perennial question: “What happens next?” Nick Payne, in his celebrated two-hander premiered in 2012, resisted the …
What was in the news on August 6, 1990? Over to the studio of GlobeLink News where the next bulletin is taking shape. Iraq has invaded Kuwait, there’s something about Alastair Burnet (youngsters had better Google) and the Queen Mother; and there’s a story cooking – or being cooked up – about crop circles. This …
If you haven’t been to the Faith Museum, I can recommend a visit. Mine was a lightning one since I was allowed in a moment or two after the stipulated last entry time so many exhibits passed in a blur. But I know a good blur when I see one and sometimes ample time can …
Following the recent success of its Chris Killip exhibition, Baltic has returned to photography with a brace of exhibitions showing the work of female photographers. Joanne Coates, recipient of this year’s Vasseur Baltic Artists’ Award, shows on Level 2 and we report separately on her exhibition, Middle of Somewhere. But her exploration of young women’s …
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