This year’s Liverpool Biennial is the first that director Sally Tallant can really call her own, having arrived in Liverpool only a few months before the 2012 festival. Now with a new, earlier July start date and a refreshed approach, Laura Robertson finds out what has changed at the UK’s biennial of contemporary art.
An open letter from artists in Manchester is calling on publicly-funded galleries to do more to support artists who live and work in the city.
This May Day bank holiday weekend sees the launch of the Bristol Art Weekender, a four-day event that brings together 16 of the city’s visual arts venues, producers and artist-run initiatives for the first time. We talk to some of those involved and investigate the wider context for the upsurge in cultural activity in the city.
Glasgow-based artist Ally Wallace asks: Why is ageism seen as an acceptable form of discrimination by so many in the art world?
A new arts documentary film festival produced in partnership with the BBC is to take place in April as part of the Glasgow International festival.
New Art West Midlands announces five artist prizewinners, showcasing new talent emerging from the region’s art schools.
What does 2014 have in store in terms of conferences and events, art fairs and festivals? We take a month-by-month look at what the year has to offer.
The winner of the 17th National Open Art Prize, worth £10000, is the Glasgow-based painter Graeme Wilcox.
Artists from across the UK will benefit from a-n bursaries specifically designed to support research and development of new collaborations within or beyond the arts. We introduce the artists and projects.
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The programme for the sixth edition of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, the first under new Director Sarah McCrory, combines the local and international to create a busy 18 days of contemporary art activity across the city.
The second edition of the Artists’ Moving Image Festival at Tramway, Glasgow, features an eclectic selection of film exclusively programmed by artists and writers who have a connection to the city, and includes screenings of work by the American artist Ellen Cantor, who died earlier this year.
Turning Point West Midlands has selected 24 graduates from universities in the region for the New Art West Midlands 2014 exhibition.
For the third of our features looking at summer shows across the UK, we talk to 2009 Turner Prize nominee Lucy Skaer about her Mount Stuart commission, a series of poetic and precise interventions in this neo-gothic house on the Isle of Bute.
The five nominees for this year’s Max Mara prize for UK-based women artists have been announced by the Whitechapel Gallery.
Glasgow Print Studio has commissioned forty new print editions to celebrate its 40th anniversary. Pippa Koszerek speaks to its Director John Mackechnie about marking this special occasion.
The Centre is Here symposium saw representatives of alternative art schools presenting their visions for art education. Kathryn Ashill, who starts an MA at Glasgow School of Art in September, found plenty to take on board as she prepares to embark on her course.
A new research study identifies how visual arts courses are addressing graduate employability and preparing students for life after art school.
Arts & Business Scotland has announced that its new Chief Executive will be David Watt, currently Director of Glasgow Sculpture Studios.
Wondering what 2013 has in store in terms of conferences and events, art fairs and festivals? We take a look ahead to provide a snapshot of things we think are worth noting in your diary.
Why follow the crowd when you could buy gifts of original work by artists and makers? In the first in our series leading up to Christmas, we pick out five selling shows worth checking out this week.
‘Changin’ Scotland – The Role of the Arts, Culture and Identity in Scotland’ looked at how artists and others can influence public policy.
32 artists shortlisted for the fourth edition of the alternative art prize ‘run by painters for painters’.
Public meeting in Glasgow to address the need for artists’ exhibition fees.
A new exhibition traces the ‘Glasgow Miracle’ back to the 1970s and the foundation of the city’s Third Eye Centre. Chris Sharratt reports.
Last week’s ‘Great British Art School Debate’ at University of the Arts, Camberwell, turned out to be nothing of the sort. But the lack of critical discussion only served to highlight the need for a far-reaching debate around the future of the art education.
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