If you have visited Auckland Castle over the past few years, thereโs a good chance youโll have peered over the wall at the gardens laid out on the slopes below. Itโs a feature of this Walled Garden that the surrounding wall โ or at least the one running along the top โ doesnโt thwart prying …
Change isnโt 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 itโs to reach new audiences and remain relevant. It’s …
โItโs amazing. This is such a big thing for me,โ says fine art student Blanka Olejniczak. โIโm just starting in this field and Iโm so proud.โ Thatโs understandable. Weโre standing beside Blankaโs contribution to the latest exhibition at Hartlepool Art Gallery which features works by Andy Warhol, รdouard 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 โ 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. โWeโve 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 worldโs in a mess what with war, climate change and political upheaval, and the truth, itโs 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 thereโs always the possibility of a sequel). It keeps things tidy and helps to answer the perennial question: โWhat happens next?โ 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, thereโs something about Alastair Burnet (youngsters had better Google) and the Queen Mother; and thereโs a story cooking โ or being cooked up โ about crop circles. This …
If you havenโt 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 yearโs Vasseur Baltic Artistsโ Award, shows on Level 2 and we report separately on her exhibition, Middle of Somewhere. But her exploration of young womenโs …
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