The second edition of the project features five new commissions on billboards across the UK, with featured artists including Mark Titchner, Hannah Black and Kathrin Böhm.
Curated by Bergen Kunsthall director Martin Clark, the Art Sheffield 2016 festival is alive with the city’s industrial and political history, with gallery spaces and culturally significant sites hosting newly commissioned and older works. Cathy Wade feels the reverberations.
Shortlisted artists to develop proposals for a major new £30,000 commission, with winner to be announced at the end of 2016.
New collection displays at Tate Modern when its extension opens in June will feature work by 300 artists from 57 countries, 75% of which have been acquired since 2000.
The Oxfordshire festival, which offers an alternative to traditional music festivals by placing visual art at the centre, has received additional funding from Arts Council England.
This July, Kathy Noble and the ICA curate the first edition of Art Night, a roving annual contemporary art festival for London initiated and organised by Unlimited Productions.
The STEAMHouse project will see the former Typhoo tea factory in Digbeth transformed through over £14 million of funding into a creative space featuring studios, workshops, equipment and support staff.
New work by leading international and Scottish artists, alongside a focus on the work of ‘The Next Generation of Artists’, will be among the highlights of the 13th edition of the UK’s largest annual festival of visual art.
This week’s selection includes an immersive audio-visual installation in Liverpool, painting in Glasgow and Middlesbrough, plus new video works in London.
The Meeting Point project will present artworks in unexpected places and support small and medium scale museums to commission artists.
With International Women’s Day 2016 on Tuesday 8 March, we highlight a selection of exhibitions and events by women taking place across the UK.
London-based artist to create new work in response to gallery’s neo-classical Duveen Galleries.
16th annual Pavilion to be designed by Copenhagen and New York-based Bjarke Ingels Group, with four architects also commissioned for the Summer Houses project.
Out There: Our Post-War Public Art focuses on the period 1945-85 including 1972’s City Sculpture Project, which saw artworks temporarily sited in eight cities across the UK. After attending an event featuring Sculpture Project artists Garth Evans and Liliane Lijn, a-n Writer Development Programme participant James Steventon considers the notion of ‘shelf life’ in public art.
Juneau Projects’ new song responds to the history of a former timber yard and the redevelopment of the riverside area with a constructed pilgrimage for the audience.
For this week’s selection of UK exhibitions, we check out a show that seeks to make the intangible visible in Cambridge, drop in on the latest iteration of the British Art Show 8 in Edinburgh, and find out if computers really can imitate human thought in Manchester.
Sally Shaw, currently head of programme at Modern Art Oxford, has been appointed the new director of Firstsite in Colchester.
This week’s selection features video work in Bristol and Birmingham, plus painting shows in Walsall, London and Glasgow.
Commissioning programme that supports disabled artists will use Ambition for Excellence Award to develop its international reach.
Jerwood Visual Arts commences its 10th anniversary year with an exhibition that explores how copyright legislation impacts on the work artists make. Pippa Koszerek speaks to Common Property curator Hannah Pierce and two of the commissioned artists, Owen G. Parry and Antonio Roberts.
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.
Ellie Harrison’s year-long Glasgow Effect project, which will see her only doing work within the Greater Glasgow area throughout 2016, has attracted a barrage of criticism on social media and articles in the local and national press. Chris Sharratt reports on the artist’s and project funder Creative Scotland’s response.
For the first Now Showing selection of 2016, we explore painting after abstraction in London, consider artistic positions that have been hard won in Edinburgh, and try to make sense of the ‘reality’ around us in Manchester.
Since 15 October, artist Jo Chapman has marked her 10-week residency on Shetland with a post (almost) every day on her a-n blog. She recalls a shifting and exciting year of upheaval that saw her without a studio and ‘almost itinerant’.
Kitty Scott announced as co-curator of 2018 edition, while Julie Lomax becomes director of development of the leading art festival.
Alternative insights into the visual arts, with fast-paced news, comment, debate.
Get in touch
[email protected]
a-n offers a range of memberships for individuals and groups – from £38 annually – find out more.
Supported by:
