2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (325+ words) Faces from the North East’s past have joined a painting by portrait artist Pierre Mignard on display on Tyneside as part of the National Gallery Masterpiece Tour. Mignard’s The Marquise de Seignelay (1691) will be at South Shields Museum & Art Gallery…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1743+ words) Hello, and thanks for jumping in for another Curated Culture. We’ve sifted through another busy couple of weeks on the North East cultural calendar and come up with our latest selection of things that we think are worth your time…...

2+ week, 18+ hour ago   (462+ words) Materials reflecting the everyday resources available to the people who occupied a Northumberland Roman fort nearly 2,000 years ago have inspired a new exhibition at the military base. Running from October 9 to December 31, the installation is the latest commission in The…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1554+ words) I have seen The Light… and was impressed. Durham’s new DLI museum and art gallery, at first viewing, oozes quality in terms of the building itself and what’s currently showing there. At the media preview I seemed to be one…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (403+ words) One of the North East’s best-loved folk songs has been given a new interpretation in a permanent audio installation at The Glasshouse, in Gateshead. The specially commissioned work takes The Water of Tyne, the beloved traditional song telling of two…...

4+ week, 22+ hour ago   (91+ words) Cultured. North East In pictures: NOVUM Festival 2026 Capturing a memorable weekend in the city Last weekend (August 7-9), Newcastle city centre became a giant playground as NOVUM Festival filled the city with music, performance, spectacle and plenty of opportunities to join…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (1086+ words) “I challenge anyone to walk by that and not feel inspired,” declares Deni Chambers. The ‘that’ to which she alludes is the towering gable end mural just created in a corner of Newcastle which might be off the beaten track…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (1244+ words) The symbolic nature of flags has fuelled much heated debate in recent years but then you come up against one that’s so much more than a symbol. The flag recently acquired by North East Museums (NEM), and unveiled this week,…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (332+ words) Three writers have been chosen to be part of the Tees Valley development programme, one element of a £93,000 writing programme New Writing North is delivering on behalf of the Tees Valley Mayor and Combined Authority. Emma Conally-Barklem, Irie McGurrin and…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1413+ words) A ribbon cutting ceremony always means something special and that was the case at MIMA, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, which is enjoying a year of high profile exhibitions. New Contemporaries runs until August 16 and then the Turner Prize exhibition…...