Arts Council England restructures
Arts Council England has announced plans to restructure and refocus the organisations national office.
Arts Council England has announced plans to restructure and refocus the organisations national office.
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.
Following the recent questioning of the relationship between Arts Council England and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, in the light of the publication of the ACE Peer Review at the end of 2005 (see Comment in February a-n Magazine), challenges have been presented to the Scottish and Welsh arts councils that threaten to undermine their continued arms length relationship with the Government.
Cultural Industries: The European Experience is a conference being run by EUCLID in association with the Tate Modern on 20 March.
Awards for artists from Scotland and Wales.
Dr Malcolm Miles, Reader in Cultural Theory at University of Plymouth comments.
Next year, employer organisation Creative and Cultural Skills will produce a comprehensive skills strategy, as the first stage of a new programme of support delivering new creative apprenticeships, better careers support for newcomers and a new management and leadership programme.
Tarze Edwards, Chair of EMACA, speaks out about Arts Council England’s decision to transfer funds from an unknown and failing project.
Issues around alternatives and independence raised in the pilot issue of The Internationaler published in Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield are pertinent to debates around British Art Show 6 that launched in Newcastle-Gateshead in September. Becky Shaw and Mark […]
Rob Wilson’s contribution to ten two zero zero five, a-n Collections.
Something Haptic, Glasgow
Spectacle Gallery, Birmingham
10-24 July
Read the Social space interviews in full along with Becky Shaw’s Introduction and Matters arising.
The first meeting of an Advisory group to steer Arts Council England's major review of the Presentation of Contemporary Visual Arts took place in April. The review intends to make the case for increasing funds for visual arts in the […]
Profiles of international models researched for Future space.
Future space addresses the future roles and functions of artists’ workspace. It introduces current strategies and concerns and places them in the context of artists’ developing practice and critical frameworks using as a prompt recent interviews with artists and other professionals. What will artists’ practice and resources be like in 2015?
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HAL is a new artist-run organisation that aims to facilitate the development of contemporary art through a programme of exhibitions, events, residencies, seminars and screenings designed to: Excite, surprise, challenge, question, provoke, inspire and entertain. The launch on 31 March […]
Trinity Technology College, Warwick
11-23 February
Art Gene combines a residency programme with links with education and plays an active part in local regeneration.
S1 Artspace provides studios for artists whose work is both contemporary and critically engaged.
Arts Council England is to undertake a review of the presentation of contemporary visual arts to inform the development of a national strategy that will help create closer links and collaboration across heritage and contemporary visual arts and commercial sectors. […]
Paul Glinkowski looks at the experiences of John Keane and Frauke Eigen, artists who have worked in war-torn locations outside of official state sponsored programmes, and talks to Dominic Nutt of Christian Aid who worked with Keane in Israel and Palestine.
International fairs are a great opportunity for researching galleries and making contacts, here is a selection of just some of the 150 showing at this year’s Frieze Art Fair.
New Art Gallery Walsall 30 July
Five artists from Poland and five from northern England performed in a programme of events in Tullie House gallery and on the streets of Carlisle in July as part of the artistdeveloped Cumbria Poland exchange. Artists went on to spend […]