North East
The Late Shows are back for UK's largest Museums at Night bash in Newcastle
Glowsticks, footballers, poetry, celebrity funerals, comedy and pottery return to Newcastle for The Late Shows, the city's award-winning Museums at Night "culture crawl" across dozens of superb venues.
Jordan Baseman:The Most Powerful Weapon in this World, at BALTIC
US-born Jordan Baseman offers three meditations on identity in a new show of video art at Baltic. Themes include organised crime, gay rights and herbarium stocking.
Hoops, bubbles, chimps, robots and gin: Newcastle Science Fest returns for 2010
Cocktail evenings, chinwags with chimpanzees, hoola hooplas and robots who can solve Rubik's Cubes are among the highlights at this year's Newcastle Science Fest, launching in March.
Tynemouth Station set to be saved with further £500,000 English Heritage grant
Tynemouth, the 19th century North-East railway station which is at risk of collapse, has been given a second £500,000 grant by English Heritage to fund "crucial" repair work.
Legendary Liverpool youth club Florence Institute reborn with lucrative Lottery win
A Toxteth youth club closed for more than 20 years will be rebuilt with £3.7 million in Lottery Fund cash, alongside a £3 million win for Northern Ireland's Giant's Causeway and boosts for other...
"Inflated" stainless steel Plexus sculpture forms towering gateway to Durham science park
A "sci-fi" sculpture made from "blown" stainless steel by metal artist Stephen Newby will form a towering entrance to the North East Technology Park after winning an Arts Council commission.
£10 million Hull History Centre ready for opening as final archives arrive
The final boxes of a 28,000-strong haul have arrived at the "fantastic" new Hull History Centre, which is set to open later this month following a two-year, £10 million building project.
Sunderland FC celebrated in photography exhibition at the National Glass Centre
Photographs and digital slideshows will bring the rich history of Sunderland Football Club to life at the city's National Glass Centre.
Marketing campaign for NewcastleGateshead's The Late Shows bags top award
NewcastleGateshead's offering for last year's Museums at Night, The Late Shows, has been awarded the Best Integrated Campaign in the Northern Marketing Awards.
£3 million appeal saves Seaton Delaval Hall for the nation
The National Trust's campaign to raise £3 million to save Northumberland's Seaton Delaval Hall for the nation has ended in success thanks to a combination of old-fashioned fundraising, government...
"Father of modern hymns" - John Stainer Archive acquired by Durham University
Durham University has been given the archive of John Stainer, whose influence can still be heard in churches and cathedrals up and down the country.
North-East Heritage Lottery Fund commissions celebratory film, Fifteen: North East Heritage
Fostering a love of the arts is at the centre of a new youth film project celebrating 15 years of Heritage Lottery Funding in the North-East of England.
Malcolm McLaren's seedy Shallow sex film invites saucy saunter to Gateshead Baltic
Shallow, the set of "musical paintings" fusing pop culture and faded smut from the mind of enigmatic self-publicist Malcolm McLaren, shows that the former Sex Pistols manager understands the selling...
The Art Fund helps Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art buy Ellsworth Kelly pair
Teeside's Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art has used an Art Fund windfall to buy a pair of untitled abstract line drawings by Ellsworth Kelly following lengthy negotiations with the veteran...
Public make their own minds up as Northern Art Prize final opens at Leeds Art Gallery
Two months before the winner is announced, the competing entries by the four finalists in this year's Northern Art Prize have gone on display in an exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery. Patrick Dandy...
