{"id":641659,"date":"2026-10-26T09:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T09:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/641659\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T09:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T09:26:12","slug":"alfred-east-art-gallery-in-kettering-reopens-after-six-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/641659\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfred East Art Gallery in Kettering reopens after six years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The gallery, which holds nearly 1,000 works in its permanent collection, is named after Sir Alfred East, the landscape painter born in Kettering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was knighted in 1910 and served as president of the Royal Society of British Artists before his death in 1913.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Work to repair the Grade II listed building has cost \u00a34.8m, although it was initially given a budget of up to \u00a36.8m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My job [after the gallery opens] is to welcome people back in and then to work on the future programme of events,&#8221; Stevenson added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The gallery, which holds nearly 1,000 works in its permanent collection, is named after Sir Alfred East, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-641659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}