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October’s must-see exhibitions
Exhibition highlights featuring a-n members, including Maybelle Peters in Nottingham, early-career artists in Hull and Northern Irish craft.
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Now Showing: This month’s must-see exhibitions
Exhibition highlights across the UK with work by a-n members including Rhea Dillon and Paloma Proudfoot’s sculptures on a London rooftop.
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Now Showing 333: The week’s top exhibitions
Our regular selection of shows to see around the UK, including Turner-Prize-winning artist Helen Cammock at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, Charlotte Hodes’ ceramic installations at The National Centre For Craft & Design, Sleaford, plus the first of Studio Voltaire’s series of offsite exhibitions.
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Now Showing 331: The week’s top exhibitions
Our regular selection of shows to see around the UK, including an exploration of the work of performance artist, zine-maker, musician, Linder, at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, plus the first major exhibition of Steve McQueen’s artwork in the UK for 20 years.
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Scene Report: West Wales – overcoming geography with collaboration and learning
While its spread-out nature presents plenty of challenges for artists and galleries in the counties of Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and parts of Ceredigion, west Wales nevertheless has a lively and varied visual arts scene. For the latest in our ongoing series, Bob Gelsthorpe provides a snapshot of current activity.
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Degree Shows 2018: announcing this year’s a-n Instagram takeovers
Five a-n members will be taking over a-n’s Instagram over the coming weeks to post images and commentary from degree shows around the country. We meet the artists and find out which shows they will be posting from.
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Scene Report: Bath and Somerset – disparate, active and outward looking
For latest in our ongoing Scene Report series, Bath-based artist Trevor H. Smith takes a look at the contemporary art landscape in his home city and the county of Somerset.
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Scene Report: Nottingham – eclectic, ever-changing and plenty more to come
For the latest in our ongoing Scene Report series focusing on the visual arts ecology of towns, cities and regions across the UK, artist and writer Wayne Burrows reports from the East Midlands.
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Degree Shows 2017: This week’s openings, 7-12 June
This week sees major degree shows opening across the UK, including exhibitions in Bournemouth, Cambridge, Glasgow, Manchester, Sheffield, Plymouth, and the West Midlands.
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Events: Paternal relationships, outdoor learning & animated gifs
This week’s column – featuring exhibitions and projects posted by a-n members on our busy Events section – takes us to Cambridge, Milton Keynes, Glasgow and London.
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Resisting gentrification: why we should fight hard to protect affordable creative spaces
Newcastle-based artist Kathryn Hodgkinson believes that the city council’s planning decisions are having a detrimental effect on the area’s creative community. In the wake of the recent decision to demolish the creative space Uptin House to make way for ‘yet another block of student flats’, she argues that local authorities need to embrace the true value of artists.
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In Brief: other news this week
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Parliament debates the EBacc’s omission of creative subjects for almost three hours, Iranian artist Parviz Tanavoli barred from leaving country ahead of London visit, and pair of paintings from Dutch golden age reunited after 351 years.
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In Brief: other news this week
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: predicting the Brexit effect, turbulence for art education in California and Sweden, a restored house boat eco-experiment in Long Island, new acquisition fund for UK regional museums.
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Antiuniversity Now! festival: “The idea is that knowledge is created and shared by people”
Inspired by ’60s radicalism yet rooted in the contemporary climate of austerity and the commercialisation of art school education, the second Antiuniversity Now! festival offers an alternative to mainstream models of learning through four days of free events, activities and lectures across the UK. Lydia Ashman reports.
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Cass faculty building sold to property developer for £50m
Central House in Aldgate – currently home to The Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design – has been sold to a property developer as part of the London Met’s relocation plans.
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New Crafts Council report explores trends in education and training
A new Crafts Council report paints a sombre picture for the future of craft in education, but there are some positives to be found among statistics that show a decline in participation despite an overall increase in provision.
