Walking into How I Am Monument feels like entering the excavation site of a 21st-century technocratic pharaoh. In the soft golden light, mud and bronze sculptures are backlit by expansive screens ...

Main image: Ali Cherri: How I Am Monument (installation view), Secession, Vienna, 2024. Photo: © Ali Cherri Studio, courtesy the artist and Imane Farès, Paris.

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 ...

I moved house earlier this year. While my new place is what estate agents euphemistically refer to as ‘a fixer-upper’, in reality it’s a bungalow built in 1988 which has remained largely the same ...

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 ...

Things aren’t always going to be this way. What is taken for granted today may be ...

‘bursting with life’ Frontline 1984/1985, Victor Wedderburn, Bradford by Desmond Bullen An extraordinary survivor: Clarion House in Nelson, Lancashire ...

‘bursting with life’ Frontline 1984/1985, Victor Wedderburn, Bradford by Desmond Bullen An extraordinary survivor: Clarion House in Nelson, Lancashire ...