I am writing to thank you for informing me I have won a free one year subscription to a-n. [See ‘Survey winners announced’ on the letters page of last month’s a-n Magazine.] It was a great start to my day […]
CCA Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), one of Scotland’s leading cultural venues, has been saved from closure and its day-to-day running taken over by the Scottish Arts Council (SAC), its main funder, after the “voluntary” resignation of the CCA […]
Susannah Silver reports from the Visual Arts Network of South Africa conference.
Outer space investigates the interface between artists’ practice and the socio-political domain. Devised and edited by Esther Salamon, contributors include Chris Batt MLA, Paul Collard Creative Partnerships, Jonathan Davis CABE, David Lammy MP Minister for Culture, Graham Leicester International Futures Forum and Tom Shakespeare.
Touchstones, Rochdale
28 January – 19 March
The Art Gallery, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen
20 January – 19 February
Aviva Leeman reports from Artquest’s recent conference.
Back in 1980 I left Wolverhampton Poly with a BA in ceramics.
Professional development news from across the UK.
The Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World (CCANW) launches its Project Space this month, the first phase of its development in the newly improved Haldon Forest Park near Exeter, which is also launched on the same day. CCANW […]
2006 is the sixtieth anniversary of the Arts Council Collection, the largest loan collection of post-war and contemporary British art in the world.
Bureau is Manchester’s new, purpose-built, independent art gallery. Run by directors Sophia Crilly and Mark Kennard, both practising artists and curators, the gallery provides a platform for dynamic, exciting and experimental work by emerging and established national and international artists. […]
A collaboration between the national Government agencies responsible for sport, arts, heritage, the built environment, and museums, libraries and archives has been launched.
For the first time Nottingham is to host the ‘British Art Show’. Taking place every five years, the Hayward Gallery touring exhibition aims to showcase the best in contemporary art. With over one hundred and twenty works by fifty UK-based […]
Bidoun is a quarterly magazine dedicated to the arts and culture of the Middle East and its diaspora. Launched in 2004, it provides a unique platform for fresh ideas and original work by contemporary artists, architects, designers and writers. Bidoun […]
Nicholas Sharp on the Artist’s Resale Right Regulations 2006.
Room, Bristol
2 February – 5 March
After close involvement in campaigning for the Artist’s Resale Right, painter Simon Black is warmly welcoming this new right.
Yuen Fong Ling on shifting Identities in Hong Kong
Kai-Oi Jay Yung (Fine Art, University of Dundee) is an interdisciplinary artist concerned with identity and our increasing obsession with spirituality. "I am intent on exposing our search for jouissance in this post everything era of top 100 lists."
Nests and cocoon-like forms intrigue me because they are often built directly into existing structures, such as trees or architectural features.
Baltic Centre of Contemporary Art, Gateshead
21 January –26 March
Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby
21 January – 5 March
S1 Artspace, Sheffield
26 January, 9 and 23 February
Artists Mike Chavez–Dawson and Len Horsey have been running a successful night of edgy performance/live art in Manchester for over a year, and now the ‘club night as an artwork’ becomes a travelling coach ‘tour as an artwork’ with ‘Auto […]
