Now Showing: This month’s must-see exhibitions
Exhibition highlights across the UK with work by a-n members including Rhea Dillon and Paloma Proudfoot’s sculptures on a London rooftop.
Exhibition highlights across the UK with work by a-n members including Rhea Dillon and Paloma Proudfoot’s sculptures on a London rooftop.
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Thursday evening I chatted with two directors of the Supermarket Art Fair about my suggestion for inviting exhibitors, staff, and volunteers to post a ’snap-shot’ of what they are doing the week that they should have been at the fair […]
Our regular selection of shows to see around the UK, including Turner-Prize-winning artist Helen Cammock at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, Charlotte Hodes’ ceramic installations at The National Centre For Craft & Design, Sleaford, plus the first of Studio Voltaire’s series of offsite exhibitions.
Our regular selection of shows to see around the UK, including an exploration of the work of performance artist, zine-maker, musician, Linder, at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, plus the first major exhibition of Steve McQueen’s artwork in the UK for 20 years.
While its spread-out nature presents plenty of challenges for artists and galleries in the counties of Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and parts of Ceredigion, west Wales nevertheless has a lively and varied visual arts scene. For the latest in our ongoing series, Bob Gelsthorpe provides a snapshot of current activity.
This summer a-n members will once again be taking over the a-n Instagram to post images and commentary from degree shows around the country as they happen. Following an open call on Jobs and opps, we’ve selected five artist-Instagrammers who will be visiting shows in Scotland, […]
Five a-n members will be taking over a-n’s Instagram over the coming weeks to post images and commentary from degree shows around the country. We meet the artists and find out which shows they will be posting from.
For latest in our ongoing Scene Report series, Bath-based artist Trevor H. Smith takes a look at the contemporary art landscape in his home city and the county of Somerset.
For the latest in our ongoing Scene Report series focusing on the visual arts ecology of towns, cities and regions across the UK, artist and writer Wayne Burrows reports from the East Midlands.
First and foremost, what is knowledge when it is “free”? Whether there are sites, such as the spaces of art, in which knowledge might be more “free” than in others? What are the institutional implications of housing knowledge […]
This week sees major degree shows opening across the UK, including exhibitions in Bournemouth, Cambridge, Glasgow, Manchester, Sheffield, Plymouth, and the West Midlands.
There isn’t any a situation that is needier in our contemporary society than our relationship with the other species on this planet. Our intolerance and maltreatment of ‘others’ be they human ‘others’ or animal ‘others’ is the single most important […]
This week’s column – featuring exhibitions and projects posted by a-n members on our busy Events section – takes us to Cambridge, Milton Keynes, Glasgow and London.
Newcastle-based artist Kathryn Hodgkinson believes that the city council’s planning decisions are having a detrimental effect on the area’s creative community. In the wake of the recent decision to demolish the creative space Uptin House to make way for ‘yet another block of student flats’, she argues that local authorities need to embrace the true value of artists.
Artist Paul Evans discusses how his work became aligned to the research undertaken within universities and how his socially engaged practice has enabled academics and the public to better understand the nature of university research. Based on an interview by artist Steve Pool.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Parliament debates the EBacc’s omission of creative subjects for almost three hours, Iranian artist Parviz Tanavoli barred from leaving country ahead of London visit, and pair of paintings from Dutch golden age reunited after 351 years.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: predicting the Brexit effect, turbulence for art education in California and Sweden, a restored house boat eco-experiment in Long Island, new acquisition fund for UK regional museums.
Inspired by ’60s radicalism yet rooted in the contemporary climate of austerity and the commercialisation of art school education, the second Antiuniversity Now! festival offers an alternative to mainstream models of learning through four days of free events, activities and lectures across the UK. Lydia Ashman reports.
Central House in Aldgate – currently home to The Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design – has been sold to a property developer as part of the London Met’s relocation plans.
Community artist based at a housing redevelopment in North Kensington interviews residents, councillor, architect and Turner Prize nominated artist.
While I was in Southern India, I thought it would be useful to visit some galleries of modern art to see some alternative histories to the British artistic canon. As I was in Bangalore, I had the chance to visit […]
I’ve spent the last two weeks cleaning for the YMCA which has been surprisingly enjoyable and I think has helped a lot with my ‘recovery’ from having to leave Xiamen. I’m feeling a bit more normal now. I miss it […]