ART

Dancing to the beat of the taiko drum
From the Shichisan Stomp to Torodoki “rumble of thunder” the Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers succeeded in their aim to ‘awaken and join with the spirit of their drums.
Katherine Wildman, 31st October 2011

Turner Prize 2011 at BALTIC
Thankfully the North wind did not blow quite as hard as it can last Friday night as crowds of visitors queued up outside BALTIC in Gateshead for a chance to see this year's Turner Prize nominees. The BALTIC building reached capacity at around 7pm and from then on it was strictly on- in one-out policy as the region's art fans gathered to see what has been dubbed 'Arguably the world's most prestigious and best known award for contemporary art, the Turner Prize.'
Katherine Wildman, 31st October 2011

Credit-card shredding Frieze delights
This year's Frieze art fair has a fun feel to it - such as Pierre Huyghe's delightful Acquarium.
Julia Kollewe, 14th October 2011

The Somnambulists tells haunting stories of soldiers in Iraq
Richard Jobson's The Somnambulists, which shows 15 British servicemen and women who served in Basra in Iraq telling their stories, creates a haunting impression. The testimonies talk of the heat, dust, camaraderie, vulnerability, terror, loss.
Julia Kollewe, 6th October 2011

Paul Graham’s Great British Road Trip
“I realised that concealment… has run through… my work, from the landscape of Northern Ireland, and the unemployed tucked away in backstreet offices, to the burdens of history swept under the carpet in Europe or Japan."
Julia Kollewe, 17th May 2011

You sexy beast: Sexual Nature show reveals all
Find out more about the sex life of animals at the Natural History Museum in London. Photograph by Suzanne Plunkett, Reuters
Julia Kollewe, 4th May 2011

New York downtown at the Barbican
New York's SoHo district in the early 1970s is the setting for an artistic response to recession in the Barbican's current exhibition.
Brigitte Istim, 20th April 2011

Eclectic Mix – For One Week Only
This exhibition is a fleeting display, like a flower that blooms once a year, and is made all the more beautiful for its temporary nature.
Katherine Wildman, 19th April 2011

There’s Beauty in Dog Shit Bins and Humbrol Paint – George Shaw at The Baltic
If I hadn’t made a painting of a pub or tree or a certain corner in a confused attempt to recall things, recreate things, show things as they are, how they become forgotten and later erased as if they were never there at all, would I look at today in any way other than weary resignation and sarky black humour?’
Katherine Wildman, 31st March 2011