Manchester International Festival has announced John McGrath, currently head of National Theatre Wales, as its new CEO and artistic director.
Paying Artists events in Liverpool and Birmingham include a talk on fair pay policy plus a giant cake parade.
The shortlist for the 2015 Turner Prize has been announced and features a London-based architecture and design collective and three women artists.
Event and exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from our busy Events section and featuring events and exhibitions posted by a-n members.
Paying Artists Regional Advocates have been busy over the bank holiday weekend, with a hustings event in Glasgow, a relay race in Bristol, plus more activity in Liverpool, Birmingham and Cardiff.
Event and exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from our busy Events section and featuring events and exhibitions posted by a-n members.
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.
Acme reveal the winner of award open to current studio residents.
Paying Artists Regional Advocates are planning a host of activities in Glasgow, Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff and Liverpool in the lead up to, and immediately following, the general election.
The Glasgow based artist, writer and curator explains why she is one of 11 Paying Artists Regional Advocates who are making sure artists’ voices are heard in the lead up to the general election.
British Art Show 8 curators Anna Colin and Lydia Yee have selected the artists for this year’s exhibition, which opens in Leeds in October.
Our selection of what’s on highlights for the next week, drawn from postings by a-n’s members on the site’s Events listings section.
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art director Godfrey Worsdale is to leave the organisation in July to join The Henry Moore Foundation as its new head.
Matthew Rowe, director of Firstsite gallery in Colchester, has stepped down after just over two years in the job.
a-n and AIR has launched the Paying Artists Regional Advocates – a team of eleven artists across five cities tasked with ensuring more artists’ voices get heard within the campaign in the lead up to the general election.
The third round of a-n’s Re:view bursary scheme has made nine funding awards to a total of 11 artists to develop their practice through self-determined professional development.
Our weekly selection of member-posted shows and events taken from a-n’s lively Events section continues with exhibitions, festivals and workshops in Aberdeen, Bristol, Corby, Plymouth and St Leonards-on-Sea.
Oriel Wrecsam is leaving its home at Wrexham Library and will be without a permanent venue until at least 2017.
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.
Nominations for the 2015 Turner Prize, which this year takes place at Tramway, Glasgow, are open until 13 April.
Artists including Jake and Dinos Chapman, Richard Wentworth and Jeremy Deller are contributing to an online fundraising auction for Milton Keynes Arts Centre by creating original work from a white ceramic plate.
A recent summit at Project Ability in Glasgow brought together support studios and learning disability artists from around the world for three days of art making, discussion and sharing of ideas. Emmie McKay reports on a conference with a difference that also included a residency by the artist Tanya Raabe-Webber.
Judith Carlton has been announced as the new director of CGP London as founding director Ron Henocq steps down after 30 years.
MFA students at Glasgow School of Art are calling on the school to reinstate 24-hour access to their studios.
The latest round of a-n’s Re:view bursaries – supporting artists to develop a self-determined professional development and mentoring programme – is now open for applications. Here we signpost the application information and profile some of the successful projects from 2014.
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