Global Cities
Tate Modern
6 June 2005 to 8 August 2005
Tate Modern
6 June 2005 to 8 August 2005
The recent NAN Roadshow event at Oriel Davies in Newtown highlighted some pertinent issues.
No one likes to be boxed in; for an individual with all their human complexity to be reduced to a cipher.
One of the problems of retrospective blogging is that the dates can get confused. And it is no surprise this has happened in my busy and currently rather disorganized life. This entry was in fact written on 22nd June and […]
Published this month is the fourth in the a-n Research paper series presenting and distributing across our wide constituency Sonya Dyers Boxed in: how cultural diversity policies constrict black artists1
It seems that I will be crazy busy until the end of next year. 2-3 installations in India in August. One project that I want to try and bring back for the Liverpool Biennale. Another project that seems to crystallize […]
The Real Thing at the Tate….contemporary art from China.. The first room that I walked into made my heart jump with joy, the second caused my eyes to well up with delight and the third just finished me off… I […]
The show has come down yesterday and there are just some things to move from the cathedral to my house now. When will I have the luxury of an art handling team at my disposal..? AND I should be on […]
Today I feel nourished thanks to my art work, actually… While I invigulated my show, I met an interesting Urban Planning Phd student, and was drawn into a 2 hour conversation about everything. Philosophy, Art, Society, practicalities and the impossibility […]
The curator has been appointed. Her name is Gill Hedley. She is an independent curator best known as the Director of the Contemporary Art Society from 1993 to 2006. Before that she worked for the British Council organising exhibitions of […]
Paris San Francisco-based Hou Hanrou will curate the 10th International Istanbul Biennial.
Sara Raza on Grace Ndiritu, a young London based artist who is enjoying an upwards ascent with an impressive portfolio of national and international exhibitions, that present a fresh style of politics and performativity.
Born in Kabul in 1973, Lida Abdul has returned to live there. Kim Dhillon looks at her practice, working accross various media, that fuses Western formalist traditions with numerous aesthetic influences.
Kate Walters, I can’t hear you (detail), watercolour, gouache, oil and graphite on shellac, 2006.
This one is going to be a long one as I try and catch up… Arrived to Zagreb, Croatia on Thursday afternoon, after an amusing flight where I sat next to two! Pilots who usually fly for Pakistan Airways, this […]
The British Council plans to redeploy a third of the currently money spent in Europe to Muslim countries in the Middle East and Central Asia.
American artist Margaret Salmon was announced winner of the first MaxMara Art Prize for Women in January.
In December, Scottish Arts Council awarded major bursaries to four leading contemporary artists for the development of future work, and as an investment in their creative talent.
The next ARTfutures will be held at Bloomberg SPACE, London, 8-14 March.
David Briers examines The British Art Show 4.
Declan Long on two new Dublin-based galleries, and the relationship between artist-led spaces in Ireland and the UK.
Catherine Bertola and Emilia Telese explain the thinking behind the event.
Biographies of Import/Export speakers.
Chris Brown introduces his selection for Beyond the UK which considers the international aspect of artists’ practices. Fourth in the series of a-n Collections.
John Beagles on The Vacuums case against Belfast City Council.