Laing Art Gallery

@ 4:26am 25 May 2013

@ 4:26am 25 May 2013

@ 4:26am 25 May 2013

We're hoping to help banish boredom this summer holidays with our summer school for 10-15 year olds. If you know any young artists, they might be interested in this

http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/laing-art-gallery/whats-on/events/laing-art-summer-school-2013.html


Laing Art Summer School 2013 - Laing Art Gallery
www.twmuseums.org.uk
Looking for a bit of artistic creativity for your summer holidays? This summer the Laing is hosting a four day art summer school for young people, led by a professional artist.

11:10am 24 May 2013

Old Master paintings are alive with vivacious, seductive and curious figures. Divine Bodies combines exceptional European pre-1800 paintings from the Hatton, Shipley and Laing Art Gallery collections with important loans, including many exciting contemporary artworks. The exhibition ranges from historical pictures by Zurbarán, Wtewael and Procaccini to contemporary works by Cindy Sherman, Marina Abramovic and John Currin. They reveal intriguing links across the centuries, depicting themes such as idealisation and imperfection, allure and shame, and youth and ageing in relation to both male and female bodies.

Divine Bodies
Old Master paintings are alive with vivacious, seductive and curious figures. Divine Bodies combines exceptional European pre-1800 paintings from the Hatton, Shipley and Laing Art Gallery collections with important loans, including many exciting contemporary artworks. The exhibition ranges from historical pictures by Zurbarán, Wtewael and Procaccini to contemporary works by Cindy Sherman, Marina Abramovic and John Currin. They reveal intriguing links across the centuries, depicting themes such as idealisation and imperfection, allure and shame, and youth and ageing in relation to both male and female bodies.

9:05am 23 May 2013

Message in a bottle

The last message from Robert Mustard who died when the SS Princess of Sunderland sank in 1893. A short film made by Gateshead College with Tyne & Wear Archives.

Andrew Parkin, Keeper of Archaeology from the Great North Museum

Andrew Parkin, Keeper of Archaeology from the Great North Museum, tells us about his favourite Greek object in the museum's current exhibition.