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At Newcastle Contemporary Art gallery, an exhibition featuring a new film by Harry Lawson plus archival photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Martine Franck, Chris Killip, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Tish Murtha and others, draws links between the fabled American West and England’s North-East
Somewhere in a glitch in time Northumbria is the 51st state of the USA. Descendants of the Nixons, Johnsons and Armstrongs who left the Cheviots to spark the anarchy of Appalachia, the bloodbath of the Wild West and the moon-shadowed schemes of the 1960s have returned to their homeland to make it great (again). Buildings are designed by Gosforth lad Terry Farrell in homage to the Prairie architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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