Tyneside's upbeat hosting of the UK's most-noticed arts prize - only the second outside London in the Turner's 27 years - sees 149,770 visit the resurgent gallery
7 Jan 2012:
Vermeer's Women: Secrets and Silence, on view at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, has broken records for an exhibition staged outside London
19 Dec 2011: Jonathan Jones: Calm down, dears, the Tate is renewing its sponsorship deal with BP. But before you join the BP-Tate haters, stop and think about how else galleries are supposed to survive funding cuts