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Construction Site VII painting by Simon Nicholas

Exhibition: Simon Nicholas paintings at Northumbria University Gallery

BACK in October 2001 – which is to say 10/11, the month after 9/11 – Simon Nicholas’s paintings caused a flurry of concern when they went on display in Newcastle.Read

Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon artwork by Storm Thorgerson

Exhibition: Storm Thorgerson album artwork at Opus art gallery, Newcastle

AN ARTIST who created some of the defining album covers of the 70s – including Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon – will show off his greatest triumphs in a new solo exhibition.Read

Elvis Presley

Preview: Absolute Elvis at Phoenix Theatre, Blyth

ELVIS is back in the building .... in the convincing shape of one Johnny Lee Memphis anyway.Read

Henry Wood's Portia from The Merchant of Venice

Shakespeare in Art exhibition at the Laing Art Gallery

SHAKESPEARE wrote 38 plays but inspired many more artists. David Whetstone views work by just a few of them.Read

Pupils learn Holocaust is still relevant

Pupils devised a series of powerful posters to warn of the dangers of persecution, reports DAVID WHETSTONERead

Artist Ben Jeans Houghton

Exhibition: Black Cloud at the Lit & Phil

THE Byker scrapyard fire, which was seen from more than 30 miles away as smoke billowed over the city last year, inspired a project which culminates this evening in a special event at the Lit & Phil in Newcastle.Read

Illustrator Vanessa Cabban

Interview: Children's illustrator Vanessa Cabban

VANESSA Cabban likens working as a children’s illustrator to being the front man in a band – implying that it’s not possible to be a star performer without lots of people slaving away quietly in the background.Read

Joseph Hillier

Preview: Joseph Hillier exhibition, Darlington

THE profile of North East artist Joseph Hillier has been on the rise. Recently, it was announced that his sculptures had been bought by Newcastle University. Read

A single running horse by Dr Yongshu Wu

Artists help to usher in Year of the Dragon

WELCOMING in the year of the mythical dragon are three artists, exhibiting together in Newcastle’s Chinatown.Read

 Designer Bookbinding exhibition at the Newcastle City Library, Garden and Other Poems by Andrew Marvell, cover by Angela James

Exhibition: Designer Bookbinders UK at Newcastle City Library

AS THE delivery of information becomes quicker, slicker and more prone to instant disposal, a timely exhibition focuses on the painstaking art of creating truly beautiful books.Read

On Kawara, One Million Years, installation view at David Zwirner, 2009. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York.

Preview: AV festival at Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland and Middlesbrough

NOW if you were planning to belt through this article at breakneck speed, squeezing it between one crucial task and another, think again.Read

Heston Pit disaster at New Hartley, Northumberland

Weekend of events to mark 150th anniversary of New Hartley pit disaster

IT was 150 years ago this month that a mining disaster at New Hartley pit left 204 men and boys dead.Read

Newcastle Illustrator Deborah Snell, who has done illustrations for a new show at the Centre for Life.

Newcastle illustrator creates art for Life Science Centre solar system show

THE story behind the stars, as imagined by cultures from around the world, is being told in a new Planetarium show at Life Science Centre in Newcastle.Read

A piece by Colin Rennie in the NGCs Kith and Kin exhibition

National Glass Centre in Sunderland plans a makover

THINGS are stirring beside the River Wear in Sunderland where one of the region’s most eye-catching cultural venues is scheduled for a makeover.Read

Nation Glass Centre director James Bustard

Nationl Glass Centre director James Bustard tells of passion

JAMES Bustard recalls that as an 18-year-old in 1973 he had decided to study economics at university before a dramatic change of heart.Read

Photographer Jane Bown

Exhibition: Jane Bown: a Life in Black and White at DLI Museum and Durham Art Gallery

IN these days of fast movement and instant, push-button technology, there’s something to be said for a moment of still and silent contemplation.Read

Final weekend for Turner Prize exhibit

A high attendance is predicted at Baltic as the Turner Prize exhibition enters its closing weekend. DAVID WHETSTONE talks to director Godfrey WorsdaleRead

A scene from Little Red Riding Hood by Norma Box

Exhibition: Once Upon a Time at The Customs House, South Shields

THE Materialistics. Despite what you might think, this is not an association for people lucky enough to be able to replace their sofa every year. It is a community-minded group of predominantly women who work collaboratively to produce incredible works of textile art.Read

Scottish Ballet's The Sleeping Beauty

Preview: The Sleeping Beauty at Theatre Royal Newcastle

AN opulent version of The Sleeping Beauty coming to the Theatre Royal completes a Fairytale Trilogy for Scottish Ballet.Read

Shows all aimed at youngsters

Can you be a parent of young kids and have live performance (as well as tantrums) in your life? Yes, answers TAMZIN LEWIS in a brief review of this year’s shows for childrenRead