In the latest in our series of picture-focused articles we take a look at the Radcliffe Infirmary Commemorative Commission, featuring artists Simon Periton, Antoni Malinowski and Daniel Silver.
This week’s selection includes a reexamination of Roland Barthes in Manchester, sculpture in Nottingham and found objects in Gateshead.
On the eve of the United Nations’ International Day of Disabled People, Unlimited’s Jo Verrent says there is still much to be done in supporting the work of disabled artists, but that this is an opportunity to commit to change.
The Antiuniversity Now! festival is taking place in London and across the UK this weekend, offering an alternative to what its founders describe as ‘the creeping marketisation of education’. Co-organiser Shiri Shalmy explains why she believes traditional academia needs to be challenged.
A group exhibition of newly-commissioned photography has opened at Jerwood Space London, enabled by the inaugural Jerwood/Photoworks Awards. Tim Clark speaks to Photoworks director, Celia Davies, about the impetus for setting up this joint programme and what the various bodies of work might reveal about the new generation of practitioners.
This week’s selection includes installation work in London, minimalism in Edinburgh and an exploration of language in Glasgow.
Frieze London is back for its 13th edition with 164 galleries from 27 countries, plus a rejuvenated Frieze Projects programme of artists’ commissions. Chris Sharratt reports.
Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas has produced the inaugural Hyundai Commission for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, unveiled this week. Here, Richard Taylor finds out more about his ‘Autoconstrucción’ approach to art, following up on themes discussed by Cruzvillegas at a recent ‘in conversation’ event in Glasgow.
As the art world descends on London for the 13th Frieze Art Fair, we take a snapshot of art fair activity happening across the capital this week.
Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery has opened in south London with the aim of making the artist’s personal collection of over 3000 works of art accessible to the public through a series of curated exhibitions. We take a look at the inaugural show featuring works by the British painter John Hoyland.
British Art Show 8 opens in Leeds on Friday 9 October and the city – currently bidding to be European Capital of Culture 2023 – is responding with a raft of additional activity. Leeds-based writers and artists Amelia Crouch and Lara Eggleton report on what the city’s homegrown and artist-led organisations are up to as Leeds City Council throws its support behind a showcase of the city’s buoyant visual arts scene.
Highlights for the week ahead selected from our busy Events section and featuring exhibitions and events posted by a-n’s members.
A new survey seeks to build a picture of social mobility and the backgrounds of those working in the arts, and is accompanied by a programme of events, art commissions and a visual campaign by the designer Peter Saville.
Artists’ moving image works take a central place in this year’s Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, directed by newly appointed Peter Taylor.
The inaugural Plymouth Art Weekender presents work across the city by over 400 local, national and international artists. Artist and AIR Council member Steven Paige welcomes this audacious new festival and looks at how the city’s visual art ecology has developed in the five years since British Art Show 7.
Glasgow International, the biennial festival of local and international contemporary art, has announced highlights of its 2016 programme.
For the Coastal Currents festival, Tod Hanson has created a site-specific work that covers the entire floor of the historic Durbar Hall in the Hastings Museum and Art Gallery. Dany Louise finds out about his process, inspiration and influences.
In the first of a new monthly series focusing on artists’ books, Sarah Bodman – researcher at UWE Bristol’s Centre for Fine Print Research – introduces a screenprinted hardback that draws on Russian Constructivist graphics and features a specially commissioned poem by Benjamin Heathcote.
In her latest short film, Marianna Simnett – one of two filmmakers selected for the 2014-15 Jerwood/FVU Awards – focuses on a surgical procedure and ‘biobot’ cockroaches. Chris Sharratt overcomes his squeamishness to ask some questions about her work.
While it is known internationally for its annual media arts prize and September festival, Ars Electronica is also firmly rooted in its home city of Linz, Austria thanks to its stunning building and work with schools. Chris Sharratt talks to artistic director Gerfried Stocker who explains how, 20 years after he joined the organisation, the relationship between local and global working remains crucial to its success.
This week’s selection includes abstract painting on a car park roof in south London, edible sculpture in Leeds and long distance communication in Southend-on-Sea.
Two events in Manchester and Blackpool will feature art, craft, live performance and music, plus special commissions from artists.
This week’s selection includes contemporary portraiture at the V&A, a response to Salibury’s picturesque surroundings and Richard Long in Bristol.
The sixth edition of the Oxfordshire festival offers an alternative to traditional music festivals by placing visual art at the centre, including commissions resulting from an a-n Go and See Bursary. Jack Hutchinson reports.
Edinburgh Art Festival opens this weekend with a programme of new commissions and exhibitions taking place across the city. Richard Taylor takes a look at some of the exhibitions and artists’ talks and tours that offer an alternative take on this year’s festival commission theme, The Improbable City.
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