A weekly briefing featuring national and international news, including: new trustees for Liverpool Biennial; UK Holocaust Memorial shortlist on show; vigilantes steal Paris street art.
Highlights for the week ahead with exhibitions and events in London, Margate, Swansea and Newcastle upon Tyne, all selected from a-n’s Events section.
One half of the London-based performance company There There with Dana Olărescu, Bojana Janković argues that the economic pressures more and more artists face are ultimately shaping the kind of work that gets made, especially by emerging artists, with profound and long-term consequences.
Newcastle-based artist Kathryn Hodgkinson believes that the city council’s planning decisions are having a detrimental effect on the area’s creative community. In the wake of the recent decision to demolish the creative space Uptin House to make way for ‘yet another block of student flats’, she argues that local authorities need to embrace the true value of artists.
Arts Council England’s current Relationship Manager for Visual Arts to take over from Kwong Lee as Director of Castlefield Gallery in January 2017.
This week’s selection includes new sculptural commissions in Cardiff, painting, drawing and photography in Manchester, and a robotic installation in Liverpool.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: artist Tania announces bid for Cuban presidency, Anicka Yi wins 2016 Hugo Boss Prize, and divided reception for Doris Salcedo’s memorial in Bogotá.
Five projects from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section and taking us to Cardiff Bay, Folkestone, London and Southampton.
As the New Art Gallery Walsall, opened in 2000 and home to the Garman Ryan Collection of over 300 Jacob Epstein sculptures, is threatened with closure, the artist Bob and Roberta Smith expresses his dismay at its possible demise.
Under the banner ‘Whose Art? Our Art!’, this year’s engage International Conference in Liverpool explored gallery education through the lens of art activism with two days of speeches, discussion and debate. Laura Harris reports from the city.
The arts community in Scotland and beyond has responded to the shock announcement that Edinburgh’s Inverleith House gallery is to close, with a petition calling for the decision to be reversed.
The 15th edition of ArtReview’s annual Power 100 names Serpentine Galleries artistic director as the artworld’s most powerful figure.
Report highlights challenges faced by artists and other freelance professionals working across Scotland, with continuing issues relating to artists’ fees.
The influential Belgian artist Luc Tuymans currently has a small show of his own work, ‘Glasses’, at the National Portrait Gallery, while a major James Ensor exhibition he’s curated opens at the Royal Academy later this month. He talks about both with Fisun Güner.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation ‘More and Better’ award will enable a four-year project of commissions with local, national and international artists making new work alongside communities of young people from Sheffield.
This week’s selection includes figurative work in Eastbourne, cyanotype prints in Bradford and drawing in London.
Five projects from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section and taking us to Cardiff, Brighouse, London and Southampton.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Last art history A-level axed, London’s free art school moves to Margate, and exhibition on slavery causes uproar in Paris.
Coming ten months into PAPER Gallery’s year-long mentoring scheme Tracing PAPER, a new exhibition showcases the work of the nine artists involved. Polly Checkland Harding talks to the gallery’s director and two of the artists involved in the scheme.
The outspoken artist and performer Liv Wynter is undertaking a residency at the artist-run Royal Standard titled HOW MUCH ARE THEY PAYING YOU? to coincide with this year’s Bloomberg New Contemporaries at Liverpool Biennial. Laura Robertson speaks to her about activism, artists getting paid, and remembering Ana Mendieta.
A recent advert by Sainsbury’s in Camden asked for an artist to ‘volunteer their skills’ to refurbish the branch’s staff canteen, with the resulting social media storm prompting press articles and an apology from the supermarket. a-n Executive Director Jeanie Scott considers what the incident says about the barriers and misconceptions artists face.
Bristol’s artist-led festival has received a significant increase in funding from Arts Council England towards the production of its next edition, taking place in September 2016.
The People’s Market in Wrexham town centre will be transformed into a new arts and cultural hub for Oriel Wrecsam gallery following major capital grants from the Arts Council of Wales, Wrexham Council and the Welsh government.
What does it mean to be an artist and how does the romantic idea of the creative individual pursuing their passion impact on the reality of an artistic practice? At Creative Scotland’s recent Visual Arts Sector Review event in Edinburgh, Glasgow-based artist Rachel Maclean talked about this and more. Here we republish an edited extract of her provocation.
Scottish Artists’ Union and Artists’ Union England call on the Department for Work & Pensions to revoke Universal Credit and implement a more workable welfare system.
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