Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sir Ian McKellen opens up on challenges of playing LS Lowry for new BBC documentary Sir Ian McKellen has described the ...

The programme stands as an ‘epitaph’ to the ‘vanished North’ of ‘industrial Manchester obliterated by the slum clearances’ ...

Actor Sir Ian McKellen will portray the acclaimed English artist LS Lowry “through his own voice” using unheard recordings from his final days in a new BBC documentary. The Lord Of The Rings star, 86, ...

Sir Ian McKellen will portray LS Lowry "through his own voice" in a new BBC documentary by drawing upon previously unbroadcast material recorded by the celebrated artist near the end of his life. The ...

Wednesday night’s sale of modern British and Irish art at Christie’s in London put an end to the contentious saga over the fate of L.S. Lowry’s painting Going to the Match. The mayor of Salford, ...

The notoriously private Manchester painter agreed in 1972 to be recorded by a young fan. The results, broadcast here for the first time, are tender, revealing – and desperately moving In 1972 a young ...

LS Lowry’s 1957 painting Sunday Afternoon, which is worth more than £4 million, will be publicly displayed for the first time in 57 years before it goes up for auction next month. The Lancashire ...

The clock hits 6.30pm, the auctioneer hits the gavel, and the most famous football painting in history is up for sale. Christie’s west London headquarters is filled with collectors, critics and ...

Sir Ian McKellen has described the "challenging" experience of lip-syncing the voice of acclaimed English artist LS Lowry for a new immersive BBC documentary, admitting the process was "not easy". The ...

Actor Ian McKellen will portray the acclaimed English artist LS Lowry "through his own voice" using unheard recordings from his final days in a new BBC documentary. The Lord Of The Rings star, 86, ...