Major gallery exhibitions tend to have one artist’s name over the door. Right now, at The Whitworth in Manchester, that name is Suzanne Lacy. But this is exhibition is so much more than one person. There’s no self-important ego...
Read MoreAttempting to sum up the city of Manchester in one book is no small task. Writers who have sought to do that in the past have tended to offer up words that don’t do the city justice. The co-editors of Manchester: Something Rich...
Read MoreCancel your 2020 winter getaway. Holidays are off. In fact, with lockdown 2.0 now in force, you can’t even go on a city break in the UK. You could, however, journey somewhere new via a travel book. Perhaps you’ll read a tale of...
Read MoreThe train pulls into the station, the driver gets out of the cab and switches ends to take it back to Darlington. It’s only then that I realise we’ve been travelling on a single track railway. Bishop Auckland is the end of the...
Read MoreMuseums, art galleries and libraries across the North are now off limits to the public, their displays and collections sitting behind locked doors. But institutions are responding creatively to closure and continuing to engage...
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