3+ day, 16+ 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…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (350+ words) Newcastle artist Kema Kay is to create a new theatre work and help develop opportunities for Black creatives in the North East after securing more than £237,000 from Arts Council England. The writer, rapper, actor and performer is at the centre…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (309+ words) Hello, and welcome to the last Cultured. On Sunday of the summer. With Dave enjoying a very well-earned holiday, we’re (figuratively) slightly slimmer than usual this week – which is probably no bad thing as the back-to-school, back-to-work and general September…...

2+ week, 1+ day 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, 4+ day ago   (744+ words) The dynamic newcomers of Ensemble ’84, based in Horden, County Durham, have turned to a working class classic for their next production at The Playhouse, their church-turned-theatre. They describe the book, which was first published posthumously in 1914, as “a story about…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (1275+ words) For Paul Conroy, it began with a transistor radio in the back of his dad’s car. He was eight or nine and an altar boy opting to wait in the car on a Sunday tea time and listen to the…...

1+ mon, 20+ hour 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, 6+ day ago   (198+ words) Artist Sneha Solanki is to lead a project looking at the cultural heritage of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) communities in north Northumberland with a particular focus on food. Her research, supported by the National Lottery Community Fund, is to…...

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…...