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A Victorian furniture catalogue with colourful sofas laid out in a grid design

Part of the Furniture: The Library of John Bedford

Rare and beautiful books chart the evolution of furniture design over the centuries and the journey from drawing board, to workshop, to home.

A head of a man in off-white plaster, with various chips, cracks and wear, lit from below and looking out of the right of the frame, against a black background

Poetry or Bust: Tony Harrison on the Trail of 'The Bingley Byron'

An oboe buried on a moor; a lichen-encrusted name carved into a rock; a lost grave; an empty plinth in a Bingley park; a chipped Burmantofts ceramic plaque...

A mobile hangs in the foreground, consisting of a metal frame with coloured lenses suspended from it. Behind it, the shadow of the mobile and coloured circles and ellipses are projected onto a wall.

Boris Maas: You have seen nothing yet

In a new commission, Dutch artist Boris Maas responds to the mystery and atmosphere of the moonlit paintings of Victorian artist John Atkinson Grimshaw with his own light installation and photographs.

A black and grey graphite artwork of an abstract undulating zig zag lined pattern.

Mary Griffiths: Everything and All of Us

Everything and All of Us brings together drawings and prints by Mary Griffiths spanning the last ten years.