I moved house earlier this year. While my new place is what estate agents euphemistically refer to as ‘a fixer-upper’, in ...

Fittingly, it’s been there from the start. Salford’s Lowry theatre and gallery is celebrating its silver anniversary, and Going to the Match, L.S. Lowry’s depiction of Bolton Wanderers supporters ...

Walking into How I Am Monument feels like entering the excavation site of a 21st-century technocratic pharaoh.

When you move house, especially during winter, the garden is full of surprises. What is lurking beneath the soil? What will poke its head out in spring? Will there be summer colour? I’ll be honest, I ...

The walk from Newcastle train station to the Baltic was a balmy meander by the River Tyne laced with foaming cherry blossom and a chorus of gulls. It was my first visit to this former flour mill, but ...

It’s hard to overstate the significance of Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake, not only in the world of dance but in popular culture and societal attitudes. “There are very few works of art that change people ...

Anyone who knew me when I was 16 will know that Hamlet Hail to the Thief – ‘a frenetic adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, haunted by Radiohead’s Hail to the Thief’ – would’ve been bang in the middle ...

Things aren’t always going to be this way. What is taken for granted today may be half-forgotten tomorrow. Victor Wedderburn’s Frontline 1984/85, his resonant and empathetic exhibition at Bradford’s ...

Up beyond the old Lancashire mill towns of Nelson and Barrowford is a simple single-storey clubhouse. It is an extraordinary survivor, the last Clarion House of its kind in Britain, part of an ...