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27 November 2018
Left: Choose Love pop-up shop where customers can buy gifts for refugees and the homeless, opens in London and New York
Right: Extinction Rebellion protests take place in London, artist Gavin Turk is among those arrested
22 November 2018
Left: Michelle Obama’s memoir, ‘Becoming’ becomes best-seller, selling 1.4 million copies in one week
Right: Botanical illustrator Sally Strawson hosts workshop at Mansions of the Future in Lincoln
15 November 2018
Left: ‘Wild City’ an exhibition by Liz Davis opens at Mansions of the Future. Until 1 December.
Right: Wild fires rage in California
9 November 2018
Left: The Grierson Trust 2018 Award ceremony where BBC’s Handmade in Hull was nominated for Best Arts of Music Documentary was nominated
Right: UK State pension age for women increases from 60 to 65
8 November 2018
Left: Plastic straws and cotton buds could be banned in the UK within the year in a move to cut pollution and protect oceans.
Right: Bonfire night 2018
23 October 2018
Top: Handmade in Hull shortlisted for the Grierson Trust Best Arts of Music Documentary. Handmade in Hull will be screened at Mansions of the Future, Lincoln on Saturday 27 October
Bottom: Liverpool Mountain by Ugo Rondinone opens at Tate Liverpool
23 October 2018
Left: Peoples March 2018
Right: America’s most ambitious public art programme 50 State Initiative by For Freedoms, crowdfund project to erect politically charges billboards
10 October 2018
Left: Frieze 2018: Women recognised at Frieze London and Frieze Masters in new themed section “Social Work” and by holding most leadership positions during the fairs
Right: Jodie Whittaker’s debut as Doctor Who is most watched launch for 10 years
10 October 2018
Top: Banksy painting ‘self-destructs’ after Sotheby’s sale
Bottom: Nobel Prize for Physics partly jointly-awarded to Donna Stickland for her ground-breaking contribution to the field of laser physics
17 September 2018
Top: Police teach officers how to decipher youth language
Bottom: V&A Dundee Museum of Design opens, Saturday 15 September
5 September 2018
Left: Billboard commission by The Alternative School of Economics launched at Phytology
Right: As much as 90% of Brazil’s National Museum destroyed in fire
22 August 2018
Left: Facebook to rank users on trustworthiness scale
Right: Tourist forced to return pebbles to Cornwall coastline to avoid £1000 fine
16 August 2018
Left: Stormzy to fund scholarships for black students
Right:A-level results day 2018
1 August 2018
Left: Taus Makhacheva, Tightrope at the Liverpool Biennial, 2018
Right: Yorkshire celebrates Yorkshire Day 2018
25 July 2018
Left: Roads in central London to have 20mph speed limit by 2020
Right: Tate Modern plans ‘slow looking’ sessions to encourage visitors to take their time
23 July 2018
Top: First 20 refugee foundation students graduate from The Compass Project, Birkbeck
Bottom: Pussy Riot protesters sentenced to jail for World Cup final pitch invasion
11 July 2018
Top: Trump baby blimp ready to take first steps
Bottom: World Cup fever: England face Croatia in World Cup 2018 semi-final
4 July 2018
Left: Catwalking: Fashion through the lens of Chris Moore, 7 July – 6 January 2019 at the Bowes Museum. Comme des Garçons, Spring Summer 2017. © Catwalking
Right: Community Haystacks, Culture is a Verb with Mansions of the Future on Saturday 7 July, West Common, Lincoln
27 June 2018
Top: UK temperatures near record levels for June
Bottom: Royal College of Art Show 2018, various locations, till 1 July, 2018
20 June 2018
Left: A list of the 34,361 men, women and children who perished trying to reach Europe, compiled by Banu Cennetoğlu and published in the Guardian
Right: Music video for Apeshit by The Carters (Beyoncé & Jay-Z) directed by Ricky Saiz and filmed in the Louvre, Paris, released this week
6 June 2018
Left: London Festival of Architecture, 1 – 30 June, 2018
Right: Olympicoplis redesigned so as to not obstruct protected view of St Pauls
31 May 2018
Left: Mansions of the Future community Open Day. This Friday 1 and Saturday 2 June, at Mansions of the Future, 15 St Mary’s Street, Lincoln
Right: Starbucks close US stores for anti-bias training day
29 May 2018
Top: Medusa’s Ankles, short-film inspired by A.S Byatt by Bonnie Wright premieres in Lincoln. Installation in Sincil Salon, Thursday 24 – Saturday 26 May
Bottom: GDPR comes into effect on 25 May, 2018
10 May 2018
Top: Mansions of the Future opens. Celebrated artists come to Lincoln
Bottom: Now it is Permitted by Bridget Smith, presenting visionary statements from leading creatives across Lincoln’s public realm
2 May 2018
Top: May Day is International Worker’s Day / Barbara Kruger’s MetroCard in Hope to Nope: Graphics and Politics 2008-18 until 12 August 2018
Bottom: Glasgow Women’s Library is one of five institutions nominated for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2018
26 April 2018
Top: Taryn Simon, An Occupation of Loss presented by Artangel
Bottom: Gillian Wearing creates monument to honour Millicent Fawcett, the first statue of a woman in Parliament Square
18 April 2018
Left: The English Windrush generation
Right: What’s happening in Lincoln?
11 April 2018
Left: Facebook Chief Executive faces congress
Right: Wettest March in a decade set to be replaced by sunshine
9 April 2018
Top: Remembering Martin Luther King on 50th anniversary of assassination.
Bottom: Companies & public-sector bodies in UK disclose gender pay gaps – construction, finance, insurance & education have largest gaps.
28 March 2018
Top: Step behind the scenes of Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs at The Store X, 180 The Strand until 6 April.
Bottom: Art Foundation students at Lincoln College take part in workshop – part of Lincoln’s Ambitions for Excellence Programme.
21 March 2018
Left: Artist Paul Chan produces banners for gun reform protest together with his publishing house Badlands Unlimited for the March for our Lives demonstration on 24 March.
Right: Queen Victoria in Paris, Watercolours from the Royal Collection exhibition at the Bowes Museum, from 24 March – 24 June 2018
14 March 2018
Left: As Stephen Hawking, science’s brightest star dies, we fondly remember his collaboration with Sarah Howe and Bridget Smith for National Poetry Day 2015
Right: Jonathan Yeo, Skin Deep exhibition at the Bowes Museum, until 17 June 2018
8 March 2018
Left: Keep it Complex help mobilise the 2018 Women’s Strike on International Women’s Day
Right: Legally Black campaign from Advocacy Academy graduates recreate film posters with black leads
28 February 2018
Top: Lewisham receives Mayor’s Cultural Impact Award for Festival of Creative Ageing
Bottom: Europe freezes as ‘Beast from the East’ arrives
22 February 2018
Top: Queen Elizabeth II attends Richard Quinn show at London Fashion Week
Bottom: Marvin Gaye Chetwynd Ze & Per exhibition at Sadie Coles, 22 February – 7 April
7 February 2018
Left: Centenary of voting rights for women
Right: Hacienda named as one of Historic England’s top historic places for music and literature
31 January 2018
Top: The Guggenheim Museum offers the White House Maurizio Cattelan’s America after turning down request for Van Gogh loan
Bottom: Purple Moon phenomena to appear in skies for the first time since 1982
23 January 2018
Left: World Economic Forum 2018 co-chaired entirely by women
Right” The Hayward gallery reopens
17 January 2018
Top: EU targets single-use plastic
Bottom: Blue Monday
10 January 2018
Left – National Trust urges Ineos to reconsider Clumber Park fracking bid
Right – BBC China editor Carrie Gracie stands down over pay equality
20 December 2017
Seasons Greeting and Happy New Year
13 December 2017
Left: Barnard Castle Christmas Festival, Magical five-day Christmas Festival involving cultural venues in picturesque Barnard Castle, County Durham from 13 – 15 December
Right: Last 3 days left to see BBC Four’s ‘Handmade in Hull’ documentary on iPlayer. ‘Handmade in Hull’ co-insides with The Tool Appreciation Society exhibition at Hull Central Library
6 December 2017
Left: Lubaina Himid wins prestigious Turner Prize, 2017
Right: RUIN: Virgil Abloh wins British Fashion Award for Urban Luxe Brand with Off-White. Celebration at RUIN Virgil Abloh and Ben Kelly, at 180 The Strand closing December 10th
29 November 2017
Top: EU rules British cities cannot be capitals of culture
Bottom: Polly Apfelbaum: Dubuffet’s Feet My Hands at Frith Street Gallery. 24 November 2017 – 2 February 2018
23 November 2017
Left: Mugabe resignation ushers in a new era for Zimbabwe
Right: #LoveitLewisham 7-days to submission for London Borough of Culture
15 November 2017
Left: Exciting times with new libraries, MVRDV completes Tianjin Public Library
Right: Handmade in Hull documentary, airing on BBC Four on Thursday 16 November at 11pm, to co-inside with The Tool Appreciation Society exhibition at Hull Central Library
8 November 2017
Left: Donald Trump’s Twitter account shut down by rogue worker on last day
Right: Pyrographer Yujin Kim presents her practice in Hull with Linda Brothwell at The Tool Appreciation Society exhibition in Hull Central Library. Supported by the British Council and Thirteen Ways.
1 November 2017
Left: Liverpool announces for the first return of the Terracotta Warriors to the UK in 10 years
Right: Hastings pier wins the 2017 Stirling architecture prize
25 October 2017
Left: Ruin, Virgil Abloh and Ben Kelly re-create fragments of a mythical nightclub at 180 The Strand
Right: UK reverts to Greenwich Mean Time marking the official end of British summertime.
18 October 2017
Left: Red sun phenomenon caused by Storm Ophelia in sky over UK
Right: People unite behind #MeToo campaign
11 October 2017
Top: Jarvis Cocker and Steve Mackey’s Dancefloor Meditations at 180 The Strand, deep meditation using only the tools to be found in a suburban discotheque, presented by The Vinyl Factory
Bottom: Old £1 deadline looms as round £’s still given in change whilst Richard Thaler wins Nobel Prize in Economic Science for building realistic understanding of human behaviour in economic theory
27 September 2017
Left: Facebook facing increasing scrutiny over advertising content
Right: The Tool Appreciation Society – Linda Brothwell exhibition at Hull Central Library. From 27 September 2017 – 10 February 2018.
6 September 2017
Left: Tour of Britain 2017
Right: South Space Records Live at Camden Assembly
1 September 2017
Left: Hollywood rallies for Hurricane Harvey relief fund
Right: Neil Finn live-streams making of latest album on Facebook Live to be released digitally today
23 August 2017
Top: First total solar eclipse to sweep across America in 99 years
Bottom: Big Ben to be silenced until 2021
16 August 2017
Top: Plaque commemorating Battle of Lewisham unveiled
Bottom: Pantone announces a new purple shade in honour of Prince
9 August 2017
Left: Study finds children as young as six can be influenced by stereotypes, believing brilliance is a male trait.
Right: Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2017
7 August 2017
Left: Gavin Turk at the Turkish Tulips exhibition, 29 July – 5 November 2017 at the Bowes Museum
Right: The Clockwork Garden exhibition by The House of Fairytales at the Bowes Museum, 29 July – 5 November 2017.
Photos by Ben Zeng for The House of Fairy Tales
26 July 2017
Left: Britain to ban sale of all diesel and petrol cars and vans from 2040
Right: Bacteria from Ovid’s 300-year-old Metamorphoses poetry volume inspires ‘bio-artist’
25 July 2017
Left: BBC gender pay gap revealed: two-thirds of top earners are men.
Right: Manchester International Festival: New Order and Liam Gillick: So it Goes.
12 July 2017
Left: Lake District is UK’s first national park to win Unesco world heritage status
Right: Hull Libraries and the Tool Appreciation Society will be at the Project Blyth Electric Car race this weekend at the KCOM Stadium, Hull
5 July 2017
Left: Pride London, 2017
Right: Ai Weiwei crams 3,500 refugee life jackets into Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s windows, Copenhagen
28 June 2017
Top: Six charged over Hillsborough disaster after waiting 28 years for justice
Bottom: Queueing for the most popular art exhibition ever
21 June 2017
Left: UK heatwave brings hottest June day for 40 years
Right: Perfume. A sensory journey through contemporary art exhibition at Somerset House. 21 June – 17 September 2017
14 June 2017
Left: Viral campaign brings out 72% youth voters.
Right: Guardian and Observer to relaunch in tabloid format.
7 June 2017
Left: Banksy withdraws free election print offer
Right: London, 4th June 2017
1 June 2017
Left: British Airways global IT failure caused by ‘uncontrolled return of power’
Right: MCM London Comic Con 2017, scratch below the surface you might be surprised to find thousands of young women go because they find it empowering.
30 May 2017
Left: Launch night of the Museum of London’s, City Now City Future with Nina Manandhar’s Project, Music Video Tour Bus
Right: Josephine Bowes: A Woman of Taste and Influence exhibition at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle. Until 16th July, 2017
17 May 2017
Left: Ransom: WannaCry hits out globally
Right: London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London presents – Present1 Imperfect2: Disorderly Apparel Reconfigured until 4 August, 2017
10 May 2017
Left: Phyllida Barlow represents Britain at 57th Venice Biennale with her installation ‘Folly’
Right: F.B.I director James Comey is fired by Donald Trump
4 May 2017
Left: Australian Labour MP Graham Perrett Laughed So Hard At “Veep” He Choked On His Sushi Dinner And Gave Himself A Black Eye
Right: Turner Prize 2017: Shortlist features bookies favourite made eligible by age limit rule change
26 April 2017
Left: Neon galore at the Tate Britain’s new installation by Cerith Wyn Evans, ‘Forms In Space’
Right: Prafulla Samantara, an iconic leader of social justice movements in India, wins 2017 Goldman Environmental Prize for his historic 12-year legal battle to affirm the indigenous Dongria Kondh’s land rights and protect the Niyamgiri Hills
20 April 2017
Left: Emma Rice and Dominic Dromgoole write impassioned open letters to their successor @Shakespeare’s Globe ‘Nothing is worth giving away my artistic freedom for’
Right: General election on 8 June 2017
11 April 2017
Left: Thirteen Ways and Museum of London announce an open call; A Vision for a Future London. Find out more
Right: Edward Enninful confirmed as new British Vogue editor
5 April 2017
Left: Guardian considers returning to its Northern roots
Right: Major cultural organisations – BBC, Arts Council England, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, the Arts Council of Wales and Creative Scotland – collaborate to enhance UK’s position as global creative force.
29 March 2017
Left: Article 50: Theresa May to call on UK to unite after letter triggers Brexit
Right: Sir Nicholas Serota sets up commission to explore benefit of arts for children with Durham University and Arts Council England.
22 March 2017
Left: Exodus: Our Journey to Europe wins Royal Television Society Award 2017
Right: UK bans laptops and tablets on flights from six Middle East countries.
15 March 2017
Left: Last week of North: Identity, Photography, Fashion at Open Eye Gallery Liverpool, 6 January – 19 March 2017. #North @OpenEyeGallery @SHOWstudio @artinliverpool @CultureLPool
Right: U-turn over Budget plan to increase National Insurance. #Uturn #selfemployed #Budget2017 @PHammondMP
8 March 2017
Left: Campaign against changes to women’s state pension age.
Right: As citizens and investors we shape the society we live in. Image courtesy of The Alternative School of Economics, 2016, designed by Rosie Traina
1 March 2017
Left: Moonlight wins Best Picture Oscar after La La Land mix-up
Right: Culture, creativity and vision from Lincoln
21 February 2017
Left: Curators of Sweden: Librarian “schools” Trump. Sweden first country in the world to hand over twitter account to its citizens. @sweden #Sweden #RotationCuration
Right: New British Museum exhibition The American Dream celebrates ‘can-do’ attitude of Sixties USA. The American Dream: Pop to the Present, British Museum. 9 March – 18 June 2017. @britishmuseum #AmericanDream
20 February 2017
Top: Adele reluctantly beats Beyoncé for top prizes as politics flares
Bottom: London Fashion Week designers shaping the way we see gender
8 February 2017
Left: The Sun gets a David Hockney on its masthead #DavidHockney @TheSun #thesun
Right: Collect: The International Art Fair for Contemporary Objects @CraftsCouncilUK #Collect #Collect2017
31 January 2017
Left: US Travel ban #TravelBan #StandUpToTrump
Right: Shia LaBeouf arrested at anti-Trump art installation in New York #NeWillNotDivideUs #FreeShia @HWNDUS
23 January 2017
Left: Fourth plinth shortlist includes winged bull and giant cream blob #FourthPlinth #LondonIsOpen #TrafalgarSquare @SadiqKahn @NationalGallery @MayorofLondon
Right: @KellyannePolls #AlternativeFacts are falsehood
18 January 2017
Top: Women’s March on Washington set to be one of America’s biggest protests
Bottom: Shaking up the definition of political art with Keep it Complex for the Unite Against Dividers weekend
11 January 2017
Left: Meryl Streep called out Donald Trump at the Golden Globes #MerylStreep #GoldenGlobes #Trump
Right: Hull launches as UK City of Culture 2017 #Hull2017 #WeAreHull
4 January 2017
Left: Jeremy Deller bumper sticker
Right: Ed Rusha
21 December 2016
Left: Santacon London
Right: Mark Carney speech sees Bank of England governor warn over robot job takeover
30 November 2016
Top: The Last Poets
Bottom: Dawn tree felling in Sheffield sparks outrage
23 November 2016
Left: Gavin Turk, Who What When Were How & Why at Newport Street Gallery
Right: Better Ambassador Than Farage
16 November 2016
Left: Oxford English Dictionary word of the year
Right: Sir Elton John’s Radical Eye, Tate Modern
9 November 2016
2 November 2016
Bottom: FIFA bans England and Scotland from wearing poppy armbands ‘because they are political statements’
Top: Feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft, reading
26 October 2016
Left: Emma Rice looses her job at The Globe
Right: The Calais ‘Jungle’ refugee camp begins to be dismantled
19 October 2016
12 October 2016
Top: Bob Dylan wins Nobel prize in literature
Bottom: Tesco’s withdraws Unilever brands in price row
5 October 2016
Top: Trump a sexist!
Bottom: Portia Munson, PPOW at Frieze Art Fair
28 September 2016
Left: ‘Boys Bouys’ by Fiona Banner at De La Warr Pavilion
Right: David Shrigley’s ‘Really Good’ currently displayed on the Fourth Plinth
21 September 2016
Left: Graveyard of life jackets in Parliament Square to highlight dangers faced by refugees #refugeesummit
Right: Implosion #BakeOff
