Art & Museums

News National Media Museum Set to Open New Internet Gallery

Construction of innovative space is underway

We live in a world where the internet plays a large role in many of our lives, yet most of us are not aware of its exact origins or what its future might hold. So the Life Online gallery, due to open on 30^th March at the National Media Museum, looks set to be an exciting addition to this already great museum.

The new gallery will aim to… Read more...

Preview Ancient Egypt Exhibition, Leeds City Museum

The British Museum's Pharaoh: King of Egypt tour is in town

The British Museum has brought its popular exhibition tour of stunning Egyptian artefacts to Leeds City Museum.

The exhibition - entitled Pharaoh: King of Egypt - runs from 10th February until 17th June and includes more than 130 artefacts, enabling visitors to absorb the history and myths of Ancient Egypt and the characters and realities of the Pharaohs.

Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums and the British Museum worked in… Read more...

News Competition for Leeds Photography Students to Display Work in City Centre Hotel

Winning work set to go on display at Park Plaza's newly refurbished City Square hotel

Photography students at Leeds College of Art have been given the opportunity by Park Plaza Hotels to permanently display their work in the company’s newly refurbished hotel in the city.

The competition has seen more than 700 entries whittled down to just 78, with the talented photography students vying for the chance to have their pictures adorn the Park Plaza hotel on City Square, which is undergoing a £2m refurbishment.… Read more...

Preview Leeds City Museum 1970s Exhibition

Public invited to contribute images for Silver 70s display

What comes to mind when you think of the 1970s? Terrible hair cuts? Bad facial hair? Dodgy wallpaper? Flares? Playboy footballers? Whatever comes to mind, the 70s was a decade of great significance – and to commemorate it, Leeds City Museum is inviting locals to join in with a free exhibition entitled Silver 70s, surrounding visitors with an authentic 1970s experience.

Not only did the era produce many classic pop… Read more...

Preview Wall Art Rockers at Cafe 164

Enjoy other-worldly modern art work at this Leeds city centre cafe

Art is meant to surprise and shock, delight and, at times, disturb. One style of art on show in Leeds this month blends all of the above: the innovative modern concept is described as "wall art for a digital generation".

The ultra-modern pieces blend art and technology seamlessly. Inspired by graphics, sci-fi, computer games and the latest technology, the works are printed digitally onto large pieces of acrylic the same… Read more...

Feature Opera North's Little Voices

Tom Goodhand attends a drama and music group designed for parents and their babies or toddlers in the wonderful Howard Assembly Room

Opera North has long been established as one of Leeds’ premier arts companies, and the opening of the Howard Assembly Room in January 2009 gave them a home, a venue that they can call their own. The room has acted in the past as a musical hall, a cinema and an adult cinema, before closing in the mid-80s until Opera North reopened it.

As a built-for-purpose venue which… Read more...

News New Gallery GreySpace Gives Fresh Perspective on Art

New gallery space opens at Broadcasting House showing works in progress

Remember maths exams where you got marks for the working out? Well new gallery GreySpace seems to think the world of equations is onto something – sometimes how you get to the end result is just as important as the outcome itself.

Bringing an exciting new idea to the art world, GreySpace Galleries will be exhibiting pieces which are not the final works, but the precursors, mapping a trajectory of… Read more...