What is it that makes this image – New Orleans, Louisiana, 1980, taken by the American photographer William Eggleston – so utterly compelling? Immediately it is pure colour: the vivid shift of red of the first lady’s...
he following fifteen photographs come to an extended climax in the spectacular setting of Yorkshire Lavender: a sixty-acre hillside farm in the Howardian Hills, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, with...
Major exhibits currently showing at Yorkshire Sculpture Park are providing new perspectives on the work of two of Britain’s eminent twentieth-century sculptors. Caro in Yorkshire, a two-site exhibition spread between Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Hepworth...
In two sessions, on Wednesday night and early Thursday morning, I stood out by York’s Millennium Bridge and watched and waited patiently and attempted to catch on camera the Perseids. The Millennium Bridge is...
In the music video for ‘Sapokanikan’, Joanna Newsom saunters through the streets of New York City at dusk. The bright lights and sandwich shops and blaring sirens of the big city provide...
ith the tagline ‘Double exposure made easy’, Fused is an iOS application – designed for both iPhone and iPad – which allows you to blend two photographs, videos, or a combination of both....
After a refurbishment costing £8 million which has taken two and a half years to complete, today York Art Gallery reopened. Since shutting its doors in January 2012, the venue has seen its exhibition space increased...
A major Ai Weiwei retrospective will open at the Royal Academy of Arts in London on 19 September. Billed as ‘the first major institutional survey of his work ever held in the UK’...
With Barbara Hepworth off visiting at Tate Britain in London, in Yorkshire a two-site exhibition opened this week, providing a thorough retrospective of the work of Anthony Caro. Indoors at the Hepworth Wakefield, Caro’s...