In Brief: News briefing featuring national and international stories including: Artemisia Gentileschi masterpiece becomes only 20th work by a woman owned by National Gallery; Arts Council England launches Impact and Insight Toolkit; artist to receive $3.5m from US Postal Service for copyright infringement; French president Emmanuel Macron to reform country’s artist residencies.
Founded in 2014 and inspired by the busy schedule of the Newhaven–Dieppe ferry, the diep~haven project sees artists exhibiting across Normandy and East Sussex as well as the ferry itself. As this year’s festival launches, Dany Louise talks cross-Channel collaboration and life after Brexit with the projects creators and artists.
As degree shows season reaches its final few weeks, we look back at a-n Instagram takeovers from Warwickshire College and City & Guilds of London Art School.
In Brief: News briefing featuring national and international stories including: National Gallery to display The Monarch of the Glen for first time in 160 years; Gagosian Gallery files motion to dismiss lawsuit after Jeff Koons’s studio was accused of failing to deliver a trio of sculptures, Anish Kapoor to sue the National Rifle Association over copyright infringement, plus public art collective Indecline call out Trump over child detention policy with billboard work.
Five projects from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section and including exhibitions in Brighton, Huddersfield, Manchester, Nailsworth and Truro.
Five artists have been shortlisted for UK’s longest-running painting prize, which is celebrating its 30th edition and 60th anniversary year.
The Istanbul-based artist has distributed copies of the publication in print and online editions of the Guardian on World Refugee Day, 20 June, prior to her exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery, London. The List will also be exhibited in public spaces as part of next month’s Liverpool Biennial.
As degree show season continues, we highlight four final-year undergraduate and postgraduate shows that are opening over the next seven days.
To mark 200 years since the publication of Mary Shelley’s groundbreaking novel, Frankenstein, Liverpool Book Art presents ‘Frankenstein 2018′, a new touring exhibition currently on display at Liverpool Central Library. Sarah Bodman introduces some of the artists’ books on show.
In Brief: News briefing featuring national and international stories including: Campaigners criticise BP sponsorship of Iraq exhibition at British Museum; Damien Hirst’s former business manager to sell 200 art works; and one person killed and 22 injured in shooting at New Jersey arts festival.
A look back at this week’s a-n member Instagram takeovers with posts from Birmingham City University’s School of Art degree show and Camberwell College of Arts’ undergraduate show.
With ‘Serious Play’ as its theme, Aberdeen’s Look Again Festival offered visitors and locals alike the chance to view the city through fresh eyes with its mix of commissions, exhibitions, talks, events and live events. a-n member FK McLoone headed to the granite city and posted her festival highlights on a-n’s Instagram.
This week’s selection of must-see shows includes Ed Ruscha at the National Gallery, London, sound installation at Richmond Chapel, Penzance, and a drawing show split across Modern Art Oxford and the Drawing Room, London.
As degree show season starts to get busy, we highlight 16 final-year undergraduate and postgraduate shows that are open over the next seven days.
This week’s selection of recommended shows includes: An exploration of folklore and the occult at Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, Faith Ringgold’s painting and quilts at Pippy Houldsworth, London, and a group show exploring Gypsy, Roma and Traveller lives at g39, Cardiff.
After launching for the first time in Athens in April, the quinquennial art exhibition Documenta 14 has just opened across 35 venues and numerous outdoor sites in its home city of Kassel, Germany. Ten a-n artist members, who visited Kassel with the support of an a-n Travel bursary, pick their top three works from the vast city-wide programme.
More degree show views from a-n’s Instagram as Sheyda Porter visits the show at Northumbria University and discovers artistic collaborations and a focus on the everyday, Chris Sharratt enjoys a perfect pint at Glasgow School of Art BA show and Richard Taylor uncovers a number of site-specific works at the MFA.
During the summer months of 2011 and 2012, Paul Winstanley travelled around Britain photographing the unpopulated studios of every degree-conferring art school in the country. Now translated into a series of paintings and prints, the work is currently on show at Alan Cristea Gallery in London.
Glasgow School of Art’s BA Fine Art degree show, the first full showcase since last year’s fire, is across two floors of the department’s new home in the Tontine Building in the city’s east end. Chris Sharratt reports.
Paying Artists Regional Advocates are planning a host of activities in Glasgow, Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff and Liverpool in the lead up to, and immediately following, the general election.
Glasgow School of Art has announced Page\Park Architects as the design team to lead the restoration of the Mackintosh Building after last year’s major fire.
MFA students at Glasgow School of Art are calling on the school to reinstate 24-hour access to their studios.
Showcase exhibition to feature works by 72 graduates selected from 2014 degree shows across Scotland, including works by graduates affected by last year’s fire at Glasgow School of Art.
A new home for Glasgow School of Art’s displaced fine art courses is being developed, following the fire that devastated the historic Mackintosh Building earlier this year.
