Newcastle's Hatton Gallery to reopen after £3.8m refurbishment

Pioneers of Pop exhibition will explore importance of city in birth of pop art movementA gallery that contains what for some is the most thrilling, important and influential piece of postwar modernist art ever made in Britain, is about to reopen after nearly two years of closure.The Hatton Gallery, founded in 1925 and part of Newcastle University, has undergone a £3.8m refurbishment ushering in what should be a new era. While the gallery is internationally important, it has for decades bee