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In Brief: news briefing featuring national and international stories including: Sculptor Martin Puryear to represent US at Venice Biennale; Banksy expresses frustration over unauthorised Russian exhibition; Sotheby’s to auction world’s first film poster.
In Brief news briefing featuring national and international stories including: Stolen Robert Motherwell painting returned to the Dedalus Foundation after 40 years; Pussy Riot invade pitch during World Cup final in Russia as political protest; and museum planned at Thai cave where 12 boys were rescued. Plus, 2019 Venice Biennale theme revealed.
The British Council has been criticised over its decision to remove its logo from the catalogue for the show ‘We Suffer To Remain’, which features work by local artists and Graham Fagen’s Venice Biennale 2015 work, The Slave’s Lament, due to ‘political content’.
In Brief: News briefing featuring national and international stories including: Frieze New York exhibitors offered 10% refund after extreme heat, and Switzerland and Luxembourg Venice Biennale representatives announced.
This week’s selection of recommended shows includes an exhibition in Wolverhampton of works by seven of the artists who featured in last year’s Diaspora Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, and an exploration of the significance of TS Eliot’s poem The Waste Land in Margate.
London-based artist Larry Achiampong has had a busy year, including commissions for Somerset House, the Jerwood Visual Arts 3-Phase programme and the Diaspora Pavilion during the Venice Biennale. He reflects on a “full on” 2017 that has been tainted by the avoidable tragedy of Grenfell.
The 24-year-old artist, whose work is featured in the Diaspora Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, lived on the 20th floor of the block.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Carolee Schneemann to be awarded Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at 57th Venice Biennale, internships threaten diversity in UK creative industries.
The 2017 a-n bursaries are now open for applications from a-n Artist members, and alongside our regular Professional development, Travel awards and Venice Biennale bursaries, for the first time we’re offering members the chance to attend the preview of Documenta 14 in Kassel.
Iraqi-born, Cardiff-based artist Rabab Ghazoul is one of five artists featured in the Iraq Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, with a three-channel video piece that focuses on Tony Blair’s testimony to the Chilcot Inquiry. Chris Sharratt finds out more.
The 56th Venice Biennale, British Art Show 8, Manchester International Festival – we take a month-by-month look at the year ahead to provide a selection of key events for your diary.
The director of Hospitalfield Arts in Arbroath, Scotland – which will be curating the Scottish pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale, alongside its ongoing programme of artists’ residencies – reflects on a busy year of new partnerships and future possibilities.
The Welcome To Iraq exhibition, one of the highlights of last year’s Venice Biennale, has been relocated to South London Gallery.
As he looks forward to the gallery’s 50th anniversary celebrations in 2014, the director of Ikon remembers a year of challenges and achievements, including curating the Iraqi Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
This year has seen Welsh artist Bedwyr Williams represent his country at the Venice Biennale while, amongst other things, next year he will play a starring role in the programme for the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art. If only his big toe wasn’t hurting so much…
Jeremy Deller’s British Pavilion show at this year’s Venice Biennale was a wittily subversive highlight of the 55th International Art Exhibition. No surprise, then, that his answers to our 2013 questionnaire are witty and – perhaps – just a little bit subversive…
Working internationally is key to the development of many artists’ practice, but without gallery representation the hurdles are considerable. With the 55th Venice Biennale soon to open, we speak to three artists – including one showing in Venice – about the challenges of working abroad without a gallery, and also get the views of an independent curator.
The Brighton-based Macedonian artist looks back on a year that started badly but ended with a flurry of commissions including being chosen to represent Macedonia at the 55th Venice Biennale.
Shows by a-n members in Venice and the UK including Vlatka Horvat’s Croatian Pavilion, a Disability Arts Movement group show, plus Rachael Clerke launches Art Business Ltd.
Exhibitions featuring a-n members including ‘Poor Things’ in Edinburgh, Sonia E Barrett in London and Rachal Bradley in Bristol.
Exhibitions that coincide with International Women’s Day on 8 March, including Big Women in Colchester and a-n member Sonia Boyce in Margate.
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A symposium co-hosted by a-n, the Artists’ Association of Finland and the International Association of Art (IAA) Europe.
Showcasing work by a-n members including Sonia Boyce’s Golden Lion-winning pavilion in Venice and Jen Southern’s river-like installation in Cheshire.
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