Underline, a 12-month programme of commissions by Art on the Underground for the Victoria line, launches this month with new works from Giles Round’s Design Work Leisure project.
Five a-n members have been selected for the inaugural a-n Writer Development Programme.
Art in Bearpit is a pilot programme of commissions and events developed for the Bearpit in central Bristol, produced by Hand in Glove in 2015. The Bearpit will play host to a series of unusual interventions and encounters, interrupting the everyday life of the city.
Artists will be opening their studios to the public over the weekend, despite this year’s Hackney WickED Art Festival being cancelled.
The Curating the Campus symposium, held to mark the launch of the University of Leeds’ Public Art Strategy, brought together speakers from across the UK to discuss commissioning and presenting public art on campus. Amelia Crouch reports.
To ring the changes I hosted a visit from Sam Wingate in my studio last week. His first impressions were favorable, he liked the space and thought it would make a great screen printing studio, although I have no such […]
Three events across the UK will showcase artists working with museums, whilst a questionnaire seeks artists’ views on future collaborations and the setting up of a subject specialist network.
Originally published in this year’s a-n Degree Shows Guide, Steven Bode, director of Film and Video Umbrella, discusses the challenges faced by moving image work at degree shows.
Bergen Kunsthall’s director, Martin Clark, will be returning to his student roots to curate the 2016 edition of the international contemporary art exhibition, Art Sheffield.
Artist Anthony Schrag is walking to Venice and invites artists and members of the public to join him along his route. Organised by Deveron Arts, Lure of the Lost: A Contemporary Pilgrimage questions the temptations of La Biennale.
Our weekly selection of member-posted shows and events taken from a-n’s lively Events section.
Manchester International Festival has announced John McGrath, currently head of National Theatre Wales, as its new CEO and artistic director.
a-n is inviting applications for a new Writer Development Programme, led by a-n News editor Chris Sharratt.
Karen Kramer and Alice May Williams have been awarded this year’s £20,000 Jerwood/FVU Awards commissions to develop new film projects that reflect on the uncertain nature of our contemporary economic and ecological situation.
Major new sculpture commission to be installed in the Royal Forest of Dean in summer 2016.
Vote Art has seen artists such as Jeremy Deller and Bob and Roberta Smith using art to encourage people to vote through a series of billboards across the country. On the eve of tomorrow’s general election, Laura Harris argues that the project demonstrates worrying tendencies in both contemporary art and parliamentary politics.
The organisers of the annual Hackney WickED Festival in East London have announced that the event will not be going ahead this year due to spiralling costs – but that the community interest company will continue to work with artists in London and beyond.
For Dark Matters, Edinburgh Printmakers has commissioned nine artists to create work in collaboration with astronomers and space engineers at the University of Edinburgh and the UK Astronomical Technology Centre. Richard Taylor sheds some light on the project.
Details of the 15th annual pavilion at London’s Serpentine Gallery, which is this year designed by Madrid-based architects SelgasCano, reveal a polygonal structure covered in a translucent, multi-coloured fabric membrane.
Capturing some of the conversations, ideas and people I encounter whilst using the A-N Re:View bursary I was awarded in 2014.
The programme for this year’s annual Edinburgh Art Festival includes the first solo show in Scotland from Phyllida Barlow and an open call for proposals from early career, Scotland-based artists.
This week’s UK-wide exhibition selection ranges from a major show of work by Glasgow-based 2008 Turner Prize nominee Cathy Wilkes at Tate Liverpool, to Chinese painter Zhang Enli at Hauser & Wirth Somerset.
ISIS Arts in Newcastle has just launched Corners, a major European-wide collaborative residency and exhibition programme that will see 30 artists and producers arrive in the North East of England during March.
