1+ hour, 22+ min ago  (427+ words) The struggles of workers during the 1926 General Strike are providing the inspiration for a new exhibition which will be seen by thousands of Tyneside travellers. A display of banners will be created by individuals who have their own experiences of…...

2+ hour, 2+ min ago  (246+ words) It will be a case of taking tea in style after a porcelain 213-piece service sold for "3, 000 at a Tyneside auction. The Herend dinner, tea and coffee service in the famed "Rothschild Bird" pattern was sold by Newcastle auctioneers Anderson…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (1046+ words) If all the submissions to this year's New Contemporaries exhibition had been accepted, it could have filled MIMA 100 times over. As it is, 26 works of art were chosen by a selection panel comprising artists Pio Abad, Louise Giovanelli and Grace…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (1190+ words) In creating Barter Books, Mary Manley gave Alnwick one of its most popular visitor attractions. Now she's trying to work her magic for the town where she grew up. Charleston, Missouri, is near the Mississippi but arguably more than an…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (729+ words) It's a sensibility that runs through the 10 images he's selected from his archive for this week's My Life Through a Lens. "One year on my birthday I was given a digital camera and instantly connected with it and what I…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (450+ words) A mystery portrait has prompted a public appeal in County Durham as a major new exhibition celebrating miner-artist Tom Mc Guinness opens at Bishop Auckland's Mining Art Gallery. Visitors are being asked to help identify an unknown man depicted in…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1179+ words) Posters, patterns, publications and walls divided zonally with fresh applications of brightly coloured paint. Lots of text, too. Nobody could accuse the latest Baltic exhibition of looking sparse. This is Starting Lines by Foundation Press who are Adam Phillips and…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1458+ words) Simone Jimena Rudolphi grew up in Germany - her primary school years spent "on a hill overlooking Mayen, roaming the forests of the volcanic Eifel area. Rheinhessen, the largest of Germany's wine regions, was home during her adolescence, offering job opportunities…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (306+ words) After years of having a day job to pay the bills where I was getting more discontent I finally bit the bullet," says the South Shields-born snapper, who now resides in Gateshead. Studio time, backstage, soundcheck " though I don't do…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (571+ words) Eight artists have been shortlisted for the annual North East Emerging Artist Award at Seaton Delaval Hall. With the shortlisting come bursaries and mentoring to help them research and develop proposals which will be displayed at the National Trust property…...