Something for all tastes in open studios event
	2:26pm Fri 9 May 08
	RICHMOND sculptor Michael Kusz is among artists throughout North Yorkshire whose studios will be open over the last two weekends in May.

Artist who had ‘the soul and brush of a poet'

2:25pm Friday 9th May 2008

THE work of Alfred Sisley goes on show at the Bowes Museum next weekend in the first major exhibition devoted to this leading Impressionist to take place outside London in half a century.

Alfred Brendel: The Sage, Gateshead

2:33pm Friday 9th May 2008

IT IS not often in the North-East that one finds a capacity audience of 1,600 for a solo classical pianist, unless, of course, it is the 77-yearold Alfred Brendel making his farewell tour with a programme of the very essence of musical Vienna at the turn of the 18th century: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert.

Guisborough Choral Society: St Nicholas’ Church, Guisborough

2:30pm Friday 9th May 2008

A FINE feast of music was served up by Guisborough Choral Society under the baton of Olwen Cameron, who was standing in for their regular conductor.

Jazz season promises new pieces and old favourites

1:12pm Friday 2nd May 2008

APRIL is usually one of the busiest of months for jazz tours but this year it was remarkably quiet. Luckily things pick up this month with visits by some of the bigger jazz names and two world premieres in some of our smaller venues, writes Peter Bevan.

	Macbeth Leeds Grand Theatre
	1:13pm Fri 2 May 08
	FROM the opening bars Tim Albery's new production for Opera North of Verdi's Macbeth, it was apparent that this was to be a grey evening - apart, that is, from several buckets of stage blood.

Wings of Time Shandy Hall, Coxwold

1:16pm Friday 2nd May 2008

Arts editor, Pru Farrier, was invited to curate her own exhibition - Here's Looking at You - at the Zillah Bell Gallery. In return, she asked the gallery's John Bell to review a current exhibition ONE of my favourite galleries is hidden away at Laurence Sterne's former home, Shandy Hall, which in the last four years has mounted shows by more than 20 Royal Academicians, including Patrick Caulfield, Peter Blake and Alison Wilding, together with artists and illustrators of the calibre of Patrick Hughes, Andre Krauze (of The Guardian) and cartoonist Martin Rowson.

	Venetian Old Master to remain at Kiplin Hall
	1:08pm Fri 25 Apr 08
	AN EARLY 18th century oil painting of Venice at carnival time will remain at Kiplin Hall, near Scorton, under the inheritance tax Acceptance in Lieu scheme.

	Picture choice worth the wait
	1:07pm Fri 25 Apr 08
	WENSLEYDALE artist Winifred Hodge said she was chuffed when the winner of the North Yorkshire Open Studio 2007 draw opted to spend the £200 prize on one of her paintings.

World premiere of music written in homage to Bach

12:15pm Friday 18th April 2008

RICHMOND can look forward to three cultural treats C including one musical premiere C as part of Swaledale Festival, which runs from May 24 to June 7.

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