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Turning Gove threat into golden opportunity

While Michael Gove’s recent scrapping of the English Baccalaureate Certificate is welcome, Q-art Director Sarah Rowles suggests that there’s much more work to be done when it comes to the wider issue of art education.

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The Tetley site, Project Space Leeds. Photo: Stephen Iles
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Project Space Leeds: “It’s all there for the taking”

With its new home in the old Tetley brewery and a recent six figure grant from ACE, these are exciting times for Project Space Leeds. We pay a site visit and speak to co-directors Pippa Hale and Kerry Harker about their plans for a new contemporary arts hub.

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Dame Liz’s speech: Powerful but flawed

Dame Liz Forgan’s farewell speech has been widely reported on for its attack on Michael Gove and the EBacc. Here, arts strategist and Thinking Practice founder Mark Robinson welcomes her forthright approach while finding plenty to take issue with.

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B I T Studios
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New artist-led studios for Cardiff

Artist-led collective B I T celebrate the launch of its new studio complex tomorrow with an evening of art, music, food and drink. We talk to Bob Gelsthorpe, one of the group’s founders.

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The Gloaming
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Putting the contemporary into London Art Fair

The venerable London Art Fair is playing host to some interesting interventions in its Art Projects strand, enabling unrepresented artists to get a piece of the art fair action. We look at some of the methodologies being employed and test the temperature of the art market in 2013.

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Simon Goode
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UK’s first centre for book arts opens

As the new London Centre for Book Arts opens its doors in Tower Hamlets, we talk to artist and founder Simon Goode about the importance of craft skills, the possibilities of digital and why we’ve got a lot to learn from America.

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New Year resolutions and predictions

A random selection of resolutions, predictions and plans for 2013, from the impact of arts cuts in Newcastle to an artist’s intention to ‘do less’. Now, what are yours?

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Ceri Hand
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2012: How was it for you? #2: Ceri Hand

The second in our end-of-year series sees London-based gallerist Ceri Hand complete our 2012 questionnaire, reflecting on a year that has seen her relocate the gallery from Liverpool to Covent Garden.

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Arts education in England under scrutiny

Presented as part of the Festival of Blackboards 2012 in Islington, the School for Change event explored the latest developments in policy affecting arts and cultural education in England’s schools.

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Carpets of Distinction
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Carpets of Distinction

Edinburgh tapestry studios celebrate centenary with showroom of hand-tufted rugs designed by contemporary artists.

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Sandfields Festival of Ideas
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Conference report: engage 2012, Cardiff

Over two days in Cardiff, this year’s engage conference examined the relationship between international and grass roots artistic activity. Our correspondent reports from day one.

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How Art Works
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Is this how art works?

What can a new publication from the National Endowment for the Arts in the USA tell us about how art works?

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Liverpool Biennial 2010 Do Ho Suh
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Liverpool Biennial: Big, ambitious and of the city

Unlike many international art biennials, Liverpool Biennial has deep roots in its host city’s contemporary art scene. As the festival reaches an intriguing point in its 13-year history, with a new director and considerably reduced budget, we assess its importance to the city’s visual arts infrastructure.

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Supernormal Festival
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The House of Supernormal

Having navigated both cultural and physical obstacles to integration at this year’s Supernormal Festival, our correspondent explores the gap between good intentions and outcomes.

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BMW Art Car by Jeff Koons
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The art of brand promotion

The relationship between art and big business has often been a troubled and contradictory one. But does a forthcoming Cultural Olympiad exhibition of luxury cars painted by famous artists cross the line into pure brand promotion?

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Conference report: Shift Happens

Shift Happens explores the opportunities that digital can offer arts organisations. The Head of Leeds School of Art, Architecture and Design explains what she got out of the conference.

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