The Italian artist and hardcore punk singer Nico Vascellari presents his large-scale, haunting audio-visual installation, Bus de la Lum, at Manchester’s Whitworth. Dany Louise asks him about the work’s meaning and his wider practice.
This week’s selection includes a harrowing installation at the Whitworth in Manchester, influential abstraction in Sheffield, and a group exhibition of works about socialism across venues in Newcastle and Gateshead.
Speaking at a Glasgow Film Festival event on producing artists’ moving image in Scotland, Turner Prize nominee Luke Fowler has called for the creation of a cinema dedicated to artists’ work and experimental film.
Irish artist Gerard Byrne is known for film installations that deal with the presentation, manipulation and perception of narratives. For his show at Warwick Arts Centre he’s premiering a new work filmed with one unbroken panning shot in Stockholm’s Biologiska Museet. He talks to Anneka French about location, light and methods of display.
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 video work in Bristol and Birmingham, plus painting shows in Walsall, London and Glasgow.
Fancy devising your own schedule of professional development to boost your practice in 2016? Looking to expand your horizons and go places in the year ahead? a-n is offering two new bursary strands to Artist members for 2016, with the focus on professional development and travel.
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.
Six a-n writers – based in Glasgow, Manchester and London – pick, in no particular order, their top five exhibitions of the year.
Belfast-based artist Seamus Harahan wins the £10,000 Film London Jarman Award.
This week’s selection includes a reflection on obsolete technology in London, an exploration of fiction and alternative realities in Nottingham, and found objects and immersive environments in Oxford.
Looking for Christmas present ideas but want to avoid the high street? Why not support artists and/or organisations that promote contemporary art by purchasing unusual or limited edition works online instead. Here’s 10 ideas to start you off, from a 50p badge to a £400 print.
As the Creative Time Summit NYC takes place this weekend at the Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn, Nato Thompson speaks to Pippa Koszerek about the summit, his new book Seeing Power and how art can impact social change.
This week’s selection includes the launch of Bloc Projects new gallery space, Margaret Harrison’s political installations in Middlesbrough and minimalist sculpture in Belfast.
The Istanbul Biennial has had a troubled few years. In 2013 it was embroiled in controversy over its reaction to political demonstrations in the city’s Taksim Square, while the current 14th edition arrived at a time of growing political tension in the country. As it draws to a close this week and Turkey prepares to go to the polls in a snap election, Dany Louise argues that this international biennial has failed to respond to the urgent and compelling context it finds itself in.
A recently opened skatepark in Everton Park, Liverpool is the result of a Liverpool Biennial commission of the South Korean artist Koo Jeong A, working with Wheelscape Skateparks and a host other agencies and community groups in the city. Laura Robertson takes a look at this luminous living sculpture and finds out more from the artist.
The inaugural North festival in Warrington has brought pavilions from city’s including Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool – as well as art that responds to Ikea – to the streets and galleries of the town. Laura Robertson reports.
This week’s selection includes an exploration of the cliché of collecting in Manchester, the unveiling of the Serpentine’s autumn exhibition in London and a painting exhibition in Rochester that mixes old and new technology.
Deutsche Börse Prize nominee Zanele Muholi has been documenting the LGBT community in her home country of South Africa for nearly ten years, creating a body of work that has been shown around the world. As a show of her photography opens in Liverpool, Laura Robertson talks to her.
The seven-strong shortlist for the international prize and exhibition’s seventh edition features artists from Angola, Lebanon, USA and Japan, and includes two well-known British artists.
The South African artist William Kentridge is a staple of international art biennials, a critically acclaimed art superstar known for his theatrical, thoughtful work. With an exhibition featuring two new films currently showing at London’s Marian Goodman Gallery, Dany Louise discovers more about the politics and processes behind his art.
The 14th Istanbul Biennial opens with work by over 80 international artists and a theme that ‘hovers around’ the connotations and physical reality of salt water.
The inaugural North festival of contemporary art opens in Warrington in October with a series of city pavilions and an exhibition that invites artists’ responses to Ikea. Laura Robertson speaks to some of the artists involved and the London-based gallerist behind the event.
Turner Prize winner to explore the role of art within music and how the two have affected one another.
As part of a scheme that has seen 20 top museum jobs up for grabs across Italy, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence has appointed a German art historian as its new director.
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