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Ed Ruscha shows 50 years of work in Newcastle
American artist whose works can be seen in the White House and Downing Street shows at Newcastle University's Hatton Gallery - arguably the birthplace of Pop Art. Alan Sykes enjoys.The veteran American...
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What have Ada Lovelace, Caroline Herschel, Rosalind Franklin and Mary...
Some of science's most eminent women are celebrated in an exhibition at Newcastle's Discovery Museum. Appropriately it opens on International Women's Day. Alan Sykes reportsAda Lovelace, Marie Stopes...
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Palace of a modern magician to glow once more with his water-powered light
Lord Armstrong's monumental estate at Cragside, the first house in the world to have electric power, notches up its 150th birthday this year. It's getting a new hydro-electric power station as a...
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Hull seeks designer for a memorial to its lost trawler crews
Artist or architect wanted to provide a fitting tribute to 6000 people lost at sea in what was the UK's most dangerous peace-time profession. Alan Sykes reportsA competition has been launched to design...
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World's strangest orchestra - a foghorn, brass bands and 50 ships
The UK's North Sea coast will echo to hoots, toots and oompah-pah as Souter lighthouse foghorn thunders out its 120 decibels to mark the phasing-out of such fine but ancient devices. Alan Sykes rubs...
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Exhibition at Durham shows art commissioned during the dark days of the Blitz
More subjects of works in the V&A's 'Recording Britain' exhibition fell victim to post war developers than to the Luftwaffe. Alan Sykes inspects survivors - and the lostIn July 1941, an exhibition...
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All things connected to England's most northerly county celebrated at the...
Annual gathering to emphasise Anglo-Saxon literature, music and art, in preparation for the return of Lindisfarne Gospels to Durham this summerThe 46th annual Morpeth Northumbrian Gathering will this...
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Lindisfarne Gospels exhibition triggers Festival of the North East
Art, music, engineering and steel all form part of a new festival that includes the world's first windscreen wiper and invites the public to write letters to the Angel of the NorthThe idea for a...
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Museums at Night: strange nocturnal goings-on in the North's arts venues
From a candlelit labyrinth to a Doctor Who-themed sleepover, hundreds of museums and galleries will take part in a non-stop after-hours art-athonInspired by the Parisian Nuit Blanche, which sees the...
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2013 Northern Art Prize goes to Margaret Harrison
The northern equivalent to the Turner Prize was won by the septuagenarian Cumbrian, celebrating her '50 years at the frontline of art and activism'This week, the veteran Cumbrian artist Margaret...
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"Into the Light"
Carlisle museum looks at the symbolism and history of freemasonry in England over the last 300 yearsFrequently the subject of criticism or bewilderment because of the secrecy of some members,...
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Newcastle's Ryder Architecture celebrates 60 years of modernism
Its founders trained with Lubetkin and Le Corbusier. But while some of the company's important early buildings are protected, some are being pulled down to make way for new homesIn pictures: view David...
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Sunderland's National Glass Centre reopens after £2.3m refurbishment
Visitors can have a go at making their own glass at centre that celebrates a history of glass-making dating back 1,300 yearsSunderland's National Glass Centre reopened for business this week after a...
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500th anniversary of the Battle of Flodden - the last time a British king...
James IV's crushing defeat is commemorated on both sides of the borderMonday 9 September marks the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Flodden, one of the bloodiest battles ever fought on English soil,...
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Refugees from all over the world create an installation artwork in Newcastle
The sea is one of the inspirations for the 'Songlines' projectThe Newcastle-based theatre company Open Clasp has commissioned a multimedia installation as the culmination of its A Song to Sing project...
View ArticleAcclaimed young director to take over Northern Stage
Lorne Campbell will be moving from London to Newcastle to run the successful theatre company. Alan Sykesoffers a welcomeNorthern Stage, the Newcastle-based theatre company, has apppointed a new...
View ArticleElizabeth Gaskell's Manchester home to get £2.5m restoration
Heritage Lottery Fund grant will help restore villa where Cranford and North & South were written back to its Victorian splendourThe Manchester home of Elizabeth Gaskell, the Victorian novelist and...
View ArticleFrom the back streets of Leeds to fighting through Germany
Leeds tailor Cyril James was "born at the wrong time" - his father was in the trenches in World War I and he served throughout the second war, from the retreat from France to the occupation of Germany....
View ArticleTake home a masterpiece for free at Darlington's art 'library'
Project from artists Walker & Bromwich attempts to tear down the elitism and cost of contemporary art but they need volunteer 'librarians' to helpDo you have a bare wall that could do with a...
View ArticleGreat North Museum needs to raise £7,000 to safeguard Lindisfarne Hoard
Collection of gold and silver coins dating from 1560s was found in the same building as those found 50 years ago on Northumberland islandIn the 1560s Lindisfarne, a tidal island off the Northumberland...
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