One of the world’s most prominent collectors of Spanish Old Masters is opening his first private museum this weekend in a bid to reinvigorate a former coal mining region in northeast England. Housed ...

A retrospective exhibition marking the centenary of the birth of a miner-turned-artist has opened in his hometown. Tom McGuinness: Out of the Darkness features oil paintings, sketches, lithographs and ...

It looks a bit like a castle and it used to be a bank but the eye-catching building in Bishop Auckland Market Place is now a significant visitor attraction. It opened as the Mining Art Gallery a ...

SCRANTON — The Lackawanna Historical Society celebrated Anthracite Mining Heritage Month and the 250th anniversary of anthracite mining with a presentation on the paintings of Remo Trieste Russo at ...

Two well-known paintings about war—Delacroix’s triumphant Liberty Leading the People (1830) and Picasso’s darkly chaotic Guernica (1937)—use distinct styles and compositional arrangements to amplify a ...

Four years ago, artist Tom Hartz, 71, came up with an idea for an unusual, and appropriate, canvas for mining-themed art – mine waste. Hartz found some pieces of slate in a culm pile near his ...

The Wyoming Valley just concluded its annual observance of Anthracite Mining Heritage Month in January, but in Pittston, that celebration of history continues throughout the year as Pittston honors ...

With spring just around the corner, the attractions of The Auckland Project today begin reopening for the new season which will culminate in the autumn with the big reveal of the new Faith museum. In ...

The North East's mining history is to be commemorated with a series of events to mark the 40 th anniversary of the Miners' Strike. From April 18, The Auckland Project’s Mining Art Gallery in Bishop ...