After seven years as head of the Arts Council Collection, in October Caroline Douglas became the new Director of the Contemporary Art Society. She looks back on a hectic, ‘high-octane’ year.
Leading ‘contemporary miniaturist’ Imran Qureshi has completed the latest Art on the Underground commission, celebrating 150 years of London’s underground tube network.
Jeremy Deller’s British Pavilion show at this year’s Venice Biennale was a wittily subversive highlight of the 55th International Art Exhibition. No surprise, then, that his answers to our 2013 questionnaire are witty and – perhaps – just a little bit subversive…
The north east England-based biennial of contemporary art, film and music has announced programme details for its 2014 edition, which takes the idea of extraction as its curated theme.
Sir Anthony Caro, the pre-eminent British sculptor, has died of a heart attack aged 89, his family have confirmed.
Following a public consultation, Conrad Shawcross has been selected to create a new commission for Dulwich Park in south London, to honour and replace a stolen work by Barbara Hepworth.
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.
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.
Today sees the launch of a new a-n bursary scheme that aims to support artists as they explore future collaborations.
This week’s selection includes figurative painting in Edinburgh, site-specific sonicness in Sheffield and a bit of English Magic in London.
The five nominees for this year’s Max Mara prize for UK-based women artists have been announced by the Whitechapel Gallery.
Tino Sehgal, the 2013 Turner Prize nominee, lights up this year’s Manchester international Festival with a riveting and joyous sound piece, writes Bob Dickinson.
Bob Dickinson meets Maria Balshaw of Manchester and Whitworth galleries and Sarah Perks of Cornerhouse to discuss the impact of Manchester International Festival’s visual arts programme on the city’s artist community, and the reemergence of performance at the festival.
In the first of a new series focusing on visually-rich art books and publications, Tim Clark looks at the disturbingly sublime images of the photographer Richard Mosse, whose images from wartorn Congo are currently showing in Venice and are to be featured in a 240-page book from Aperture.
Peter Heslip, Arts Council England’s new Director of Visual Arts, oversees a portfolio of 144 funded visual arts organisations and leads on museum funding in London. Two months into his new job, and on his first day in the office after a trip to Venice, we talk to him about supporting artists, communicating with the public and the realities of the current funding environment.
In a major speech, the Scottish Government’s Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop has defended the idea of art for art’s sake and attacked the UK Government’s focus on the economic value of culture.
The William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow, which reopened last year after a £5million redevelopment, has won the Art Fund’s £100,000 Museum of the Year prize.
Fear of public backlash and potential loss of funding is leading to direct and indirect forms of censorship, according to a new report.
Karen MacKinnon has been appointed Director of the Artes Mundi international visual arts exhibition and prize.
Working internationally is key to the development of many artists’ practice, but without gallery representation the hurdles are considerable. With the 55th Venice Biennale soon to open, we speak to three artists – including one showing in Venice – about the challenges of working abroad without a gallery, and also get the views of an independent curator.
The UK’s newest photography festival, Diffusion, has just opened to the public in Cardiff. We speak to its director, David Drake, about opportunities, challenges and what sets it apart from the rest.
A week after announcing the closure of Cardiff-based contemporary art agency Mermaid & Monster, its Director takes a close look at the art ecology of Wales and finds plenty to be concerned about.
The Cardiff-based contemporary art agency has announced that it will no longer be representing artists, citing the shrinking market for smaller, regional galleries as a factor.
Multi-media exhibition TROLLEYOLOGY celebrates the first ten years of a small but potent publishing house and the life of a maverick publisher and champion of documentary photography.
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