Mining Art Gallery News Today

Bob Olley’s unsettling vision of clash between miners and police is part of 40th anniversary show in Bishop Auckland

The Faith Museum, which opened Oct. 7, is Britain's first museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the country’s diverse expressions of religious faith.

The new British Faith Museum opened in October 2023 at the historic Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, County Durham, England

The project will include the design of nine large shutter panels for Auckland Tower depicting the history of the town of Bishop Auckland, to be unveiled in Spring 2024.

Striking works by Tracey Emin, Ron Mueck and Rembrandt are going on show as part of a thought-provoking exhibition exploring our concept of Sin.

The Auckland Project and Durham County Council are bringing our readers an exclusive chance to win one of two prizes with Bishop Auckland Food Fest

A recent trip across the pond took me to a town in northeast England that until recently didn’t have much to offer tourists. As with other towns and villages around Durham, the shire town or seat of County Durham, it reminded me of the Rust Belt back home. Basically, the places where mining and other working-class jobs that once defined entire communities no longer exist.

The former mining town is home to Velázquez, Murillo and El Greco, the art of pitmen, and its own artist-designed tweed

THE Bishop Auckland co-op might have been an egalitarian set-up, paying its divis to its members and providing the south Durham mining communities…

With spring fast approaching, visitor attractions are opening up like daffodils in the first warm sunshine. On Tuesday, Looking Back attended the…