Arts & Culture

Sing a song of a textile city

Bradford celebrates its status as UK City of Culture 2025 with art installation evoking its rich industrial heritage

May 30 •

Let's hear it for the 'zines

Exhibition gives fresh voice to the passion and enthusiasm of football's fandom

May 23 •

Someone chewing is some kind of art show

An exhibition of sound and multimedia exploring the politics of noise evidently offers plenty of food for thought

May 16 •

Let the North be heard

A new creative writing hub in Newcastle intends to amplify the collective voice of Northern writers

Apr 18 •

Merit doesn't matter much in Britain's artful class society

Talent comes to the fore in the UK's creative industries, but research finds a 'posh' background is certainly a big help

Dec 21, 2024 •

The beat goes on

Students at a Yorkshire university are making the music industry dance to their tune – with their own record label

Nov 8, 2024 •

Mural marks a find for Bradford's industrial past

The mural by Bauhaus-trained ceramics artist Grete Marks had been lost behind a false wall for decades

Nov 1, 2024 •

Bristol movie makers land a flight of dragons

The cutting edge technology behind Game of Thrones spin-off House of the Dragon comes to the city in boost for local production industry

Oct 19, 2024 •

Carnival costume is an impossible dream made real

Costume design veterans and engineers using cutting edge fabrication technology collaborated to bring Afrofuturist outfit to life

Oct 4, 2024 •

Poet Dillon Jaxx wins 2024 Brotherton Poetry Prize

Accepting the prize, Jaxx paid tribute to their late friend, the poet Kathryn Bevis

Jun 21, 2024 •

It's curtains for performing arts if we don't smarten up

A report for the British Academy warns that performing arts are under threat from future global shocks unless we learn the lessons of the covid pandemic

Jun 14, 2024 •

Yorkshire music festival raises a glass to Roman forebears

Wine and music played integral roles in ancient Rome; the sleepy Yorkshire village of Aldborough is celebrating its cultural links to both

Jun 7, 2024 •

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