Five projects from a-n members, selected from our busy Events section, take us to Hull, Langport, Leigh on Sea, London and Spalding.
The largest contemporary art festival in the UK returns for its ninth edition with 42 artists paying homage to Liverpool’s history and future through themed ‘episodes’.
The artist and professor in Fine Arts, Sonia Boyce, is leading a three-year AHRC-funded research project into British Black artists and modernism in the 20th century. She talks to Laura Robertson about why the work needs to be done and what she hopes to achieve.
This week’s selection features sculpture shows in London and Leeds, an exploration of of post-industrial landscapes and production in Sheffield, plus an exhibition of drawings in Sunderland.
What does 2016 have in store in terms of conferences and events, exhibitions, art fairs and festivals? We take a month-by-month look at what the year has to offer – and we’ll be adding new events for later in the year as they’re confirmed.
Commissioned artists will make new work for the biennial, presented in a series of locations across the city including Tate Liverpool, FACT, Bluecoat, and Open Eye.
This week’s selection includes Carsten Höller’s major survey show at the Hayward Gallery, London, a workout of the mind and body at Mima, Middlesbrough, and 50 years of Bridget Riley’s work at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea
Open exhibitions are becoming an increasingly common aspect of the visual arts landscape, with high-profile big hitters such as the BP Portrait Award and Royal Academy Summer Show joined by a growing number of smaller-scale shows. But with most charging an entry fee and with no guarantee of being included, are artists simply being asked to subsidise the sector with their own money? Jack Hutchinson investigates.
The international curator and former director of Liverpool Biennial looks back on a year that, amongst many other things, saw him curate the third Folkestone Triennial.
The 8th Liverpool Biennial is a more modest affair than previous years with less visibility across the city, and while the core programme is deftly curated, it leans heavily on work from the past. Chris Sharratt reports.
This year’s Liverpool Biennial is the first that director Sally Tallant can really call her own, having arrived in Liverpool only a few months before the 2012 festival. Now with a new, earlier July start date and a refreshed approach, Laura Robertson finds out what has changed at the UK’s biennial of contemporary art.
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.
What does 2014 have in store in terms of conferences and events, art fairs and festivals? We take a month-by-month look at what the year has to offer.
East Midlands Visual Arts Network launches a series of events on the hot topic of the open exhibition.
From an orchestra of 100 electric guitars in the Anglican Cathedral to cakes and coffee in a bakery in Anfield, Liverpool Biennial continues to be a welcome guest in the city.
Unlike many international art biennials, Liverpool Biennial has deep roots in its host city’s contemporary art scene. As the festival reaches an intriguing point in its 13-year history, with a new director and considerably reduced budget, we assess its importance to the city’s visual arts infrastructure.
With the a-n Degree Shows Guide 2019 published, over the next two months we’ll be providing a weekly pick of new degree shows, selected from our online listings. This week features final-year shows in London, Kingston, Glasgow and Liverpool.
Selected from a-n’s busy Events section, featuring exhibitions and events posted by a-n members, this week’s selections are from Shropshire, London, Ipswich, Taunton and Nottingham.
A new contemporary art space in Liverpool run by The White Pube co-founder Gabrielle de la Puente is bucking the art world trend for internationalism by only exhibiting work from artists and other creatives living in or from the Merseyside region. Laura Robertson reports.
As degree show season starts to get busy, we highlight 16 final-year undergraduate and postgraduate shows that are open over the next seven days.
Record number of galleries set to participate in annual art fair focusing on emerging artists.
The forthcoming Latitude 2012 festival programme includes a contemporary art prize that’s exhibited in an outdoor gallery. Two shortlisted artists discuss the challenges they faced creating new works for the show.
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