A masterpiece arrives at the Grundy - but the real story is about power, place, and who art is actually for

Outside a Reform UK rally in Leeds, protest, counter-protest and a growing ecosystem of “performative journalism” revealed a deeper shift in northern politics - one where anger travels faster than answers, and where the conditions driving populism remain unresolved

In Sunderland, where thousands of children are growing up in poverty, a radical idea is taking hold: that culture is not an add-on, but part of the infrastructure that shapes a child’s - and a city's - future

This is what widening participation sounds like: football chants, orchestral music and a room full of people discovering they belong there. Enyi Okpara and Manchester Camerata are making it happen.

A Monet on the Lancashire coast: Not a stunt, but a statement - about access, inequality, and who gets to experience great art in the UK

Fadi A. Thabet’s Lens on Gaza comes to East Street Arts

Peter J Walsh on RAVE ONE, Manchester, opportunity, and the infrastructure that no longer exists

Across the North of England, solidarity has always had a geography

The Sheffield artist has built a career painting the humour, heartbreak and shared memories of working-class Britain. Now he’s taking his most personal exhibition on tour - into the grassroots music venues that shaped the culture he celebrates.

In Helmsley, Dutch writer Marjolijn van Heemstra invites us to do something quietly radical: sit at the threshold of night, leave the lights off, and remember that the world is made of transitions

Half-Term wonder - and the North York Moors’ plan to change how we light the night

A profound afternoon with the artist who wants us to know: 'We're in this together'