Art moves – 2008 February
This month’s news of art moves.
This month’s news of art moves.
Theo Wood talks to two of the judges of this year’s Emergency open exhibition at Aspex in Portsmouth.
There are now over 200 contemporary art biennials across the globe, compared with four or five or twenty years ago.
Rather than asking what a biennial represents, it may be worthwhile to shift the emphasis of the question and examine how it represents. That is: How is it experienced?
There is something about a ceramics conference that can send a shudder up the spine.
S Mark Gubb profiles artist Gavin Wade and his project that aims to tackle the role and function of art.
Sally Davies profiles Kypros Kyprianou, discussing his interest in scientific themes, collaborative working and residencies at Artsway and Allenheads Contemporary Arts.
Patricia Fleming discusses the relationship with the art market for artists and curators in Wales and Scotland.
Emilia Teleses opening essay offers analysis of the markets for art in the UK highlighting the contradictions and idiosyncrasies of the relationship between artists and money,
Artists and artists support agencies have benefited from recent Arts Council England funding rounds.
The recent NAN Roadshow event at Oriel Davies in Newtown highlighted some pertinent issues.
No one likes to be boxed in; for an individual with all their human complexity to be reduced to a cipher.
Published this month is the fourth in the a-n Research paper series presenting and distributing across our wide constituency Sonya Dyers Boxed in: how cultural diversity policies constrict black artists1
Paris San Francisco-based Hou Hanrou will curate the 10th International Istanbul Biennial.
Sara Raza on Grace Ndiritu, a young London based artist who is enjoying an upwards ascent with an impressive portfolio of national and international exhibitions, that present a fresh style of politics and performativity.
Born in Kabul in 1973, Lida Abdul has returned to live there. Kim Dhillon looks at her practice, working accross various media, that fuses Western formalist traditions with numerous aesthetic influences.
Kate Walters, I can’t hear you (detail), watercolour, gouache, oil and graphite on shellac, 2006.
The British Council plans to redeploy a third of the currently money spent in Europe to Muslim countries in the Middle East and Central Asia.
American artist Margaret Salmon was announced winner of the first MaxMara Art Prize for Women in January.
In December, Scottish Arts Council awarded major bursaries to four leading contemporary artists for the development of future work, and as an investment in their creative talent.
The next ARTfutures will be held at Bloomberg SPACE, London, 8-14 March.
David Briers examines The British Art Show 4.
Declan Long on two new Dublin-based galleries, and the relationship between artist-led spaces in Ireland and the UK.
Catherine Bertola and Emilia Telese explain the thinking behind the event.
Biographies of Import/Export speakers.