Directed by Turner Prize-winning artist Douglas Gordon, Neck of the Woods stars Charlotte Rampling and features music by international concert pianist Hélène Grimaud. But does this Manchester International Festival production fulfill its potential? Chris Sharratt reports.
The public are invited behind the scenes of the burgeoning Bermondsey Street art scene as galleries, studios and project spaces open their doors for the Bermondsey Art Trail this Saturday.
Following an introduction by Manchester International Festival Director Alex Poots and its Artistic advisor Hans Ulrich Obrist in 2013, artist Gerhard Richter and composer Arvo Pärt were inspired to make new work dedicated to each other. Bob Dickinson attended the premiére of this new collaboration at Mancheter’s renovated Whitworth, and discovered one of the highlights so far of MIF 2015.
Over the course of this year’s Manchester International Festival, the top floor exhibition space of the Manchester Art Gallery will be occupied by Ed Atkins’ Performance Capture, a durational project revolving around the ongoing production of a single computer-animated video. Luke Healey takes a tour of the exhibition and speaks to the artist.
As part of LeftCoast’s Creative People and Places professional development programme, a-n will be delivering four workshops in July, including two brand-new pilot sessions on project management and freelance strategies.
Two new senior curators, Miguel Amado and Elinor Morgan, join the team at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art.
Our weekly selection of member-posted shows and events taken from a-n’s lively Events section.
Five exhibitions by a-n’s members – posted on our lively Events listings section – take us on a journey to Colliers Wood, Ipswich, Northallerton, Plymouth and Tottenham.
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2015 announce the 37 artists participating in this year’s touring exhibition, selected from over 1600 applications.
This week’s selection includes a survey of William Hogarth in Bristol and an exploration of Walsall’s social history.
As the dust settles after last week’s hectic preview period, a-n’s Pippa Koszerek reviews the exhibitions by Sarah Lucas (British Pavilion), Helen Sear (Wales) and Graham Fagen (Scotland) at the 56th Venice Biennale.
Just because you’re not officially in the Venice Biennale doesn’t mean you can’t be part of the frenzy of activity taking place across the city. Pippa Koszerek highlights some of the alternative and artist-led events taking place during and beyond the Biennale’s three-day preview.
This bank holiday weekend sees Glasgow awash with exhibitions and events in artists’ homes as part of the second annual Openhouse Art Festival, while at the opposite end of the country Brighton’s artists are also opening their doors.
Art in Bearpit, curated by Hand in Glove, launches the first three months of its participatory public programme in Bristol’s iconic sunken roundabout.
10 artists announced for major new alternative education scheme led by a consortium of artist-led and NPO organisations.
A new report just published by a-n gives an overview of nine Paying Artists gallery case studies showing how some galleries are already demonstrating transparency in relation to artists’ fees.
In the lead up to artist-led Transition Gallery’s latest exhibition, which features works by six recent British School at Rome residency holders, we speak to artist and curator Cathy Lomax about her reasons for reconnecting with fellow residency holders, and to Archie Franks and Ursula Burke about the impact the residencies had on their practice.
Five events by a-n’s members – posted onto the popular Events listings page – consider narratives and histories of loss, displacement, tradition and migration.
A one-day symposium organised by Crate Studio and Project Space in Margate and University for the Creative Arts Canterbury is to explore the different ways artists make a living at a time of austerity.
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.
Our busy Events section features events and exhibitions posted by a-n members. We pick five highlights from the next seven days, including shows in Gloucester, Eastbourne and Ramsgate.
Event and exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from our busy Events section and featuring events and exhibitions posted by a-n members.
Sluice_ art fair is to return with its DIY ethos for Frieze Week 2015 and has issued a call for participants from the artist/curator-led and emergent gallery sector.
This week our what’s on highlights include search-engine compiled artistic biographies, an interactive art game and an immersive ‘cocoon’ – all drawn from postings by a-n’s members on the site’s Events section.
Our selection of what’s on highlights for the next seven days, drawn from postings by a-n’s members on the site’s Events listings section.
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