Susie Stubbs

Owl Project, Paul Merrick, Rachel Clewlow, Cath Campbell, Iain Andrews & Lindsey Bull: these are the ones to keep an eye on. Axisweb has much to celebrate. The online resource...

It’s not just about cream teas and silver-haired volunteers, says the National Trust’s North West director. If someone asked you what National Trust actually does, what would you say? John...

Find out what’s on and when in Manchester’s first festival of 2014. This is a festival of three halves (and yes, we know that’s not mathematically possible): a series of...

Full listings for the Whitworth’s art-inspired, four month-long pub crawl. Launch party, 31 January Join us to celebrate the launch of the full Whitworth Pub Crawl programme. Get a taste...

Sheffield knows how to do good street art – we talk to one of its resident graffiti artists to find out more about his work. Sheffield is a city singularly...

When was the last time you worked an eight-hour day? An exhibition in Liverpool makes the case for a better work-life balance. It’s dark out. It’s past my kids’ bedtimes....

Manchester-born artist Stanley Chow is set to have a stellar New Year – we find out why, by the end of 2014, he’ll be as appreciated in his hometown as...

Chinatown goes all out, and stages the biggest Chinese New Year celebrations in the north. There’s lots of stuff we know how to do well in Manchester: inventing things, babies...

Liverpool’s Open Eye gallery presents two artists fascinated by the same dilapidated New York waterfront – but for very different reasons. Major ports, docks, even the humble seaside town: waterfronts...

An anthology of new northern ghost stories is laudable not just for its writing; Beth Ward’s bespoke illustration is rather good too. Two of the things we like best are...

A fascinating exhibition at Tate Liverpool documents what happened when 20,000 kids were let loose in Stockholm’s state museum. In 1968, Danish artist Palle Neilson conducted a radical social experiment...

Looking for things to do this month? December has got it all going on. We round up some of the most interesting street art, markets, ice-skating, illustration, pop-up shops and...