NOW SHOWING #162: The week’s top exhibitions
This week’s selection includes vegetable sculptures in Leeds, film works in London and in Newcastle a group show exploring figurative and conceptual art.
This week’s selection includes vegetable sculptures in Leeds, film works in London and in Newcastle a group show exploring figurative and conceptual art.
Five projects from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section and taking us to Birmingham, London and St Leonards.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Banksy’s Spy Booth is feared destroyed, Chicago judge rules in Peter Doig artwork trial, and serious earthquake damage to Italy’s artistic heritage.
Following the success of a campaign against cuts to the city’s arts budget, the biennial Cardiff festival returns with a 31-day programme of exhibitions and events.
Following the result of the EU referendum in June, a-n’s member survey was a chance to get a sense of how Brexit might affect visual artists. Dany Louise highlights some of the survey findings including examples of how the decision to leave the EU is already affecting members who regularly work, exhibit or apply for opportunities in Europe.
Northumberland-based Arts & Heritage to receive Arts Council funding for ten museums to work with individual artists on new works inspired by their collections.
GroundWork Gallery has opened in King’s Lynn, Norfolk and will present exhibitions and projects that explore art and environment.
Edinburgh Art Festival’s Platform exhibition provides early career artists the opportunity to develop and show work at this high-profile annual festival. Richard Taylor talks with one of this year’s artists whose intriguing commissioned work was built in the Scottish Highlands and fine-tuned through collaboration during residencies in Abroath and Holland.
This week’s selection includes work inspired by the city environment and traditional Islamic art in London, an installation in Brighton by one of Arte Povera’s leading lights, and in Leeds a show exploring the relationship between sculpture and prosthetics.
Five projects from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section, take us to Abergavenny, London, the Isle of Wight and West Yorkshire.
The latest exhibition from Scottish artist Jenny Steele is the result of her research into 1930s Seaside Moderne architecture in North West England and Scotland.
The programme for the 2016 edition of Bristol Biennial offers expanded notions of audience participation under the theme In Other Worlds.
This year’s Liverpool Biennial is busy, lively and timely, sprawling across 27 sites and featuring a broad range of cleverly realised works. Chris Sharratt reports from the city and selects five highlights.
The outspoken artist and performer Liv Wynter is undertaking a residency at the artist-run Royal Standard titled HOW MUCH ARE THEY PAYING YOU? to coincide with this year’s Bloomberg New Contemporaries at Liverpool Biennial. Laura Robertson speaks to her about activism, artists getting paid, and remembering Ana Mendieta.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: curatorial team set for London’s King’s Cross; arson attack results in relocation of Liverpool Biennial artwork; protests against Australian arts cuts; and Christie’s art sale exceeds post-Brexit estimates.
Eight artists including Catherine Yass and James Rigler are taking part in the White Noise residency at the soon to be demolished former Television Centre’s East Tower.
The London gallery’s expanded 2016 architecture programme has opened to the public, featuring the 16th annual pavilion designed by Bjarke Ingels Group and four newly commissioned summer houses.
For just 10 days, the Whitstable Biennale transforms the seaside town on the Kent coast with its intelligent art-led approach and unusual new commissions. Dany Louise reports from a biennial like no other.
The Artists Fund pilot programme – a partnership between a-n, Artquest and DACS – has chosen the recipients of five £1,000 grants and three commissions worth £2,000 each.
This week’s selection includes a sensitive exploration of mental health in Nottingham, an exhibition of Belgium-based artists in Manchester, and in Edinburgh an overview of Scottish art since the end of the second world war.
Edinburgh Art Festival has announced the four artists and collectives from across Scotland selected to participate in its programme dedicated to supporting artists at the beginning of their careers.
Unlimited is to continue to produce new works by disabled artists following funding from Arts Council England for its third programme.
A recent advert by Sainsbury’s in Camden asked for an artist to ‘volunteer their skills’ to refurbish the branch’s staff canteen, with the resulting social media storm prompting press articles and an apology from the supermarket. a-n Executive Director Jeanie Scott considers what the incident says about the barriers and misconceptions artists face.
This week’s selection includes figurative art in London, book art in Brighton and art meets science in Salford.
Led by a-n, Artquest and DACS, The Artists Fund is a new community interest company providing small grants to visual artists based in the UK. The pilot programme, which offers five £1,000 grants and three commissions of £2,000, is now open for applications.