Art
Photo Gallery: Love of Leeds
A new photographic project aims to capture the life of Leeds in a stunning year-long photo essay.
Photo Gallery: Forget Me Not, pARTners, The Exchange, North Tyneside
Forget Me Not, a new exhibition at The Exchange in North Shields, will showcase the work of pARTners which provides art classes for people living with dementia in North Tyneside.
Exhibition Review: 100 Years of Council Housing, Manchester Central Library
Manchester, a city which likes to tell itself it has always led the laggards elsewhere, was building municipal housing long before the introduction of the Addison Act in 1919.
Review: Untameable – Barry Hines, Sheffield University
Incredibly (how?) it is 50 years since the release of Kes, Ken Loach’s classic film about a rough and tumble working class kid, neglected at home and school, who finds, only fleetingly alas, beauty and purpose through the experience of training a hawk.
Photo Gallery: Lived-In Rooms by Daniel Meadows and Martin Parr
In 1973, June Street in Salford was an archetypal northern terraced street used for exterior shots on Coronation Street.
Review: The Lanterns at Chester Zoo
If Christmas really is all about the children, then there can’t be any quibbles about this year’s iteration of The Lanterns at Chester Zoo.
Exhibition Review – Eric Tucker: The Unseen Artist, Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
He’s been called the ‘secret Lowry of Warrington’ but, in truth, Eric Tucker has more in common with the painter Edward Burra than the chronicler of the industrial north west.
Review: The Art of the Brick, Great Northern Warehouse, Manchester
It’s LEGO-tastic at Manchester’s Great Northern Warehouse.
Exhibition Review: Strip! How Football Got Shirty, National Football Museum, Manchester
Much like my recent attempt at bowling with the Editor of Northern Soul, I failed miserably at ‘guess the football shirt from the 1891/2 season’ at the National Football Museum’s new exhibition.
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