Now in its seventh edition, Photo North has become a festival defined less by scale than by care. Rooted in storytelling, collaboration and social engagement, it offers a space where photography and visitors can meet on equal terms. Co-founder Peter Dench explains…

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Exhibition of the week Lucian Freud: Drawing into ...

So Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo in October 1876, charting the latest instalment of the Holbein cult. He was renting a room in Isleworth, west London, still hoping for a religious career

Top-end British classics emerge after 30 years in hiding