This week’s selection includes a reflection on obsolete technology in London, an exploration of fiction and alternative realities in Nottingham, and found objects and immersive environments in Oxford.
Austmarka | 3 degree | overcast sleep late speed through breakfast avoid the news focus on muesli spend the morning in the studio with the Norwegian artist we look at each other’s work talk about Venice she visited this year […]
Looking for Christmas present ideas but want to avoid the high street? Why not support artists and/or organisations that promote contemporary art by purchasing unusual or limited edition works online instead. Here’s 10 ideas to start you off, from a 50p badge to a £400 print.
What printing works have I chosen to exhibit in Pretty’s? Print 1 – By The Waters 8 Now the reason why I wanted to include this image as my first choice, is because I have had so many moments by […]
As the Creative Time Summit NYC takes place this weekend at the Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn, Nato Thompson speaks to Pippa Koszerek about the summit, his new book Seeing Power and how art can impact social change.
What else did I do after the Ai WeiWei gallery? The Soane Museum I did successfully enough tried to find the Soane museum with my three classmates who got a little bit lost in the city area but did […]
It is a dreich November day, a day when the whole country is shrouded in mist, perhaps as the aftermath of Halloween or just the reality of autumn. I have the chance to escape and listen to Graham Fagen talking […]
A Performance Lecture by Theaster Gates, part of the Sanctum Programme by Situations Bristol
This week’s selection includes the launch of Bloc Projects new gallery space, Margaret Harrison’s political installations in Middlesbrough and minimalist sculpture in Belfast.
The Istanbul Biennial has had a troubled few years. In 2013 it was embroiled in controversy over its reaction to political demonstrations in the city’s Taksim Square, while the current 14th edition arrived at a time of growing political tension in the country. As it draws to a close this week and Turkey prepares to go to the polls in a snap election, Dany Louise argues that this international biennial has failed to respond to the urgent and compelling context it finds itself in.
A recently opened skatepark in Everton Park, Liverpool is the result of a Liverpool Biennial commission of the South Korean artist Koo Jeong A, working with Wheelscape Skateparks and a host other agencies and community groups in the city. Laura Robertson takes a look at this luminous living sculpture and finds out more from the artist.
The inaugural North festival in Warrington has brought pavilions from city’s including Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool – as well as art that responds to Ikea – to the streets and galleries of the town. Laura Robertson reports.
This week’s selection includes an exploration of the cliché of collecting in Manchester, the unveiling of the Serpentine’s autumn exhibition in London and a painting exhibition in Rochester that mixes old and new technology.
Deutsche Börse Prize nominee Zanele Muholi has been documenting the LGBT community in her home country of South Africa for nearly ten years, creating a body of work that has been shown around the world. As a show of her photography opens in Liverpool, Laura Robertson talks to her.
The seven-strong shortlist for the international prize and exhibition’s seventh edition features artists from Angola, Lebanon, USA and Japan, and includes two well-known British artists.
The South African artist William Kentridge is a staple of international art biennials, a critically acclaimed art superstar known for his theatrical, thoughtful work. With an exhibition featuring two new films currently showing at London’s Marian Goodman Gallery, Dany Louise discovers more about the politics and processes behind his art.
The 14th Istanbul Biennial opens with work by over 80 international artists and a theme that ‘hovers around’ the connotations and physical reality of salt water.
The inaugural North festival of contemporary art opens in Warrington in October with a series of city pavilions and an exhibition that invites artists’ responses to Ikea. Laura Robertson speaks to some of the artists involved and the London-based gallerist behind the event.
Turner Prize winner to explore the role of art within music and how the two have affected one another.
As part of a scheme that has seen 20 top museum jobs up for grabs across Italy, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence has appointed a German art historian as its new director.
When I first came to London in 1982 it was as a music student playing the viola at the Royal College of Music, round the corner from the V&A. Many years later, I discovered I was dyslexic, but at the […]
Iraqi-born, Cardiff-based artist Rabab Ghazoul is one of five artists featured in the Iraq Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, with a three-channel video piece that focuses on Tony Blair’s testimony to the Chilcot Inquiry. Chris Sharratt finds out more.
The Icelandic Art Center, commissioners of Christoph Büchel’s The Mosque, has abandoned its legal appeal against the Venetian authorities’ closure in May of the Icelandic Pavilion.
