This week is the final week of the Birmingham leg of Bill Drummond’s World Tour (2014-2025), London’s Foundling Museum celebrates the legacy of William Hogarth through the work of four contemporary artists, and Sheffield’s Site Gallery presents an exploration of the rave scene.
Artist-led festival Hackney WickED has announced it will provide a number of artist bursaries for its 2014 edition, following news that it has received Arts Council England funding for the first time.
The seventh Whitstable Biennale opened on Saturday with a variety of one-off performances and a series of new film commissions. Dany Louise reports from the small fishing town on the Kent coast.
a-n/AIR’s Paying Artists campaign launches today with its own dedicated website at www.payingartists.org.uk
The headline show at this year’s House festival in Brighton & Hove is Yinka Shonibare’s installation of 10,000 reclaimed books at Brighton Museum and Gallery. But as our reviewer discovers, there’s also a satisfying journey of discovery to be had around the festival’s more unconventional spaces.
Tax or not? It’s a question I’ve been asking many artists over the last few weeks and everyone it seems, has a different answer. Most haven’t got a clue (which is a bit worrying) So – if you are not […]
Various, Glasgow
12 – 16 April 2014
Things are hotting up as the big date for the opening gets nearer. It’s been non-stop since I last found the time to write a blog post. The main thing has been to get the catalogue to a stage for […]
Lucy Clout and Marianna Simnett have been announced as winners of the £20,000 Jerwood/Film and Video Umbrella Awards: What Will They See of Me?
Glasgow-based artist Ally Wallace asks: Why is ageism seen as an acceptable form of discrimination by so many in the art world?
a-n’s Artist + AIR membership continues to grow, with over 18,000 ‘professional and well-networked’ UK artists now signed up.
The full programme for Liverpool Biennial 2014 has been announced and includes works by Sharon Lockhart, Will Holder and Jef Cornelis, and will open with the performance of a new composition by Michael Nyman commemorating the Hillsborough disaster.
New Glasgow International director Sarah McCrory has stamped her personality on the festival’s programme, but the sixth edition of this biennial with a difference still retains its unique character and sense of place.
26 disabled artists to be supported bringing ambitious new works to audiences across the UK.
The Canal & River Trust has announced an ambitious programme of contemporary art as part of its Arts on the Waterways programme.
A £10m programme to commemorate three key dates from the first world war will see new works by Anya Gallaccio, Richard Wentworth and Carlos Cruz-Diez.
Newtown-based Oriel Davies Gallery has announced the exhibiting artists for its 2014 Open, which offers a first prize of £1,000 plus a solo show at the gallery.
To mark World Meteorological Day, Loughborough University is launching its Nowcasting programme of contemporary art, bringing artists together with scientists and including a spot of ‘smog tasting’.
Yoko Ono, Andy Goldsworthy and Pablo Bronstein are among the internationally renowned artists commissioned for the third edition of Folkestone Triennial.
Throughout March, venues across the North-East are hosting exhibitions, film screenings and live performances as part of the biennial AV Festival, which this year is themed around the idea of ‘extraction’. We report from the opening weekend and take in some of the key shows in Newcastle, Sunderland and Middlesbrough.
WORK MAKES WORK So I started this tumblr thing: http://workmakesworks.tumblr.com/ WMW is an attempt to make a place for artists (of any kind) to share their experiences (in a diagram of some kind) of how work has led to more […]
As I am just embarking on a new project freshly funded by the Arts Council of England (so fresh I am still to receive the first paycheque!), I thought it would be fun (and might be mildly entertaining or a […]
A new blog initiated by the artist Emily Speed invites artists to map and explore how their networks and opportunities are made through the process of making work.
This week’s selection of must-see shows includes abstract drawing in London, two titans of modern sculpture in Warwickshire, and speculative future-gazing in Cambridge.
