Arts & Exhibitions in Newcastle and the North East

Portraits for the ears at Baltic

WHAT links a botanist, a criminal and a gay activist? DAVID WHETSTONE enters the world of Jordan Baseman.

Wise words at top speed in new Baltic exhibition

DAVID WHETSTONE revels in the new Jenny Holzer exhibition at Baltic

Tripping the light fantastic at mima

THERE’S something illuminating going on at mima - quite literally. From today the Middlesbrough gallery launches its new exhibitions linked to the AV Festival running right across the North-east.

Relax and pull up a deckchair at mima

VISITORS to mima look forward to more special events in the months ahead

Fifth Hexham Book Festival fires up

THE programme for the Hexham Book Festival was unveiled yesterday, and will doubtless cause a flurry of date-circling in the diaries of literature lovers all over the North East

Review: Charlemagne Palestine, St Thomas's Church, Newcastle

FOR four and three-quarter hours, the organ of St Thomas’s Church in Newcastle proved equal to the demands of avant garde composer and musician Charlemagne Palestine.

Review: Maddi Nicholson: Going Home form Here, Tullie House Art Gallery, Carlisle

MADDI Nicholson is an artist who never fails to surprise.

Night Train, Queen's Hall, Hexham

IF we needed any further convincing of the wealth of local talent in the North East then it is illustrated – literally and quite beautifully – in new book Night Train

The Northern Print biennale art tour

See art and get fit is the message, as David Whetstone embarks on the Northern Print Biennale tour

Preview: Ben Okri at the Festival of African Writing

BOOKER award-winner Ben Okri will be launching his new work, Tales of Freedom, in Newcastle this evening.

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