Arts & Culture News

Image of paper cranes from Simmer exhibition

The show must go on: final year degree shows go online

Published
Friday 5th June, 2020
Categories
Arts & Culture

The final year degree show by students from the School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies opens online, and finalists are embracing the opportunity to innovate and challenge tradition.

Professor Griselda Pollock, winner of the 2020 Holberg Prize

Art historian Griselda Pollock wins Holberg Prize

Published
Thursday 5th March, 2020
Categories
Global
Arts & Culture

Griselda Pollock, Leeds' Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art, was announced this morning as the recipient of this year’s Holberg Prize.

DARE Art Prize winner Anna Ridler, drawing with sound

Prize challenge to artists and scientists

Published
Wednesday 11th December, 2019
Categories
Science
Arts & Culture

Challenging artists and scientists to collaborate on new approaches to the creative process, the £15,000 DARE Art Prize is open for applications.

Children playing wallops (nine-pins) in the street at Castle Bolton in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, 1964. A group of men can be seen sitting on a bench, watching men from the village playing quoits on the grass verge.

Can you tell ferntickles from branny-speckles?

Published
Friday 8th November, 2019
Categories
Society & Politics
Arts & Culture

A small army of volunteers is to be recruited to help update the most comprehensive survey of England’s dialects ever undertaken, thanks to an injection of funding.

A woman looks up at a pink sculpture above her, featuring layers of pink petals.

Shining a light on creativity in Leeds

Published
Monday 23rd September, 2019
Categories
University
Arts & Culture

A confluence of art and biology forms part of University's Light Night offering this year.

Aerial view of Mecca at sunset

First independent report into UK Hajj industry

Published
Friday 9th August, 2019
Categories
Arts & Culture
Society & Politics

The first independent report into the UK Hajj industry reveals a sector that is rapidly expanding and changing – and becoming increasingly expensive for British Muslims.