The programme for the sixth edition of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, the first under new Director Sarah McCrory, combines the local and international to create a busy 18 days of contemporary art activity across the city.
This week’s look at the next seven days (4-10 October 2013) on the international art scene takes us to Italy, the USA, Austria and South Korea, with events, art fairs and new permanent commissions.
This year’s Abandon Normal Devices, a festival of digital culture, film and art, takes place in Liverpool from 3-5 October and for the first time includes the AND Fair – a showcase for new innovations.
Exchange, labour, economy and collaboration: the fifth instalment of Art Sheffield fills the city’s galleries and industrial quarters with Beuys and debate.
Erica Scourti – collaboration The second artist I met was Erica Scourti. I wanted to meet her for a couple of reasons. Firstly she is working in contexts that I would like to – regularly doing residencies and making video […]
Venues across the town, Brightlingsea Essex
7 – 8 September 2013
The new Serpentine Sackler Gallery, designed by award-winning architect Zaha Hadid, is an impressive new London art space – but it’s the inaugural, site-specific exhibition by the Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas that steals the show.
Must-see shows this week include an Artangel commission in central London that examines our reading of found objects, and Tacita Dean’s JG Ballard-inspired investigation of Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty.
As part of the Great North Run Culture programme, Adam Chodzko has created a radio broadcast that imagines an eerie, watery future in which the famous North-East half-marathon is more of a swim than a run.
This week our recommendations include naked youths and found objects in Wakefield, a glass pavilion in the Scottish countryside, and contemporary art-themed crazy golf in Derby.
York St Mary’s, York
1 July – 1 November 2013
The drive back yesterday took 8 hours and we didn’t get home until after dark. Provided plenty of time to think on the happenings of the three-weeks well spent in Penzance, St. Just, and on-and-off the coast around Lands End. […]
Today sees the launch of a new a-n bursary scheme that aims to support artists as they explore future collaborations.
A new artist-led studio and gallery space housed in three shipping containers on the Somerset coast has just announced a residency opportunity for an emerging artist. We find out more from printmaker Susan Lowe, one of the project’s organisers.
The ten artists shortlisted for the Art Across the City 2014 Public Art Open Submission have been announced, ahead of the latest instalment of the 2013 programme in Swansea next month.
We are extremely pleased to announce the shortlist for our inaugural Public Art Open Submission. We received a large number of local, national and international applications from artists based in the UK, South Africa, Denmark, USA, Spain, Germany, Czech Republic, […]
In recent years we’ve been on a treadmill of commissions without time to reflect and seek new inspiration for works WE’D like to make. This blog charts our progress as we embark on a review of our practice, involving; a […]
I’m talking about my installations at the Bluecoat on Saturday (tomorrow). I’ve not had much time to think about the work since it’s installation, the usual flow of peaks & troughs of exhibitions, workshops and commissions artist led events has […]
Last week I had the final two of my Re:view meetings. This brings an end to the bursary period, which began in April. I’ve been blogging here throughout this process but wanted at this end point, to summarise and attempt […]
A four-strong shortlist for this award that supports early career moving image artists has been chosen from a longlist of 150 submissions.
Now in its sixth year, the ten shortlisted artists for the annual Film London Jarman Award reveal the broad range of experimental filmmakers working in the UK.
With a brand identity designed by Jim Lambie and a programme of artist initiated projects courtesy of David Dale Gallery, the recently announced cultural programme for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games sees plenty of visual arts alongside the sport.
Art Across The City takes place twice a year, commissioning temporary and permanent public art across Swansea, Wales, UK. The latest commissions open on 6th September and include Juneau Projects, Jacob Dahlgren, Laura Sorvala, Matthew Houlding.
Locws International are very pleased to announce our artist commissions as part of our Art Across The City programme, taking place across Swansea from 6th Sept – 6th October 2013. The artists are: Jacob Dahlgren Juneau Projects Laura Sorvala Matthew […]
