Pointing North
Highlighting just some of the festivals, events and exhibitions taking place across the North of England this season.
Highlighting just some of the festivals, events and exhibitions taking place across the North of England this season.
Curator Lauren A Wright discusses her ‘journey’ to Margate.
Profiling studio and workshop facilities around the country, plus ambitious exhibition projects that are engaging with local communities.
12 Visual art representatives address the damage that will be inflicted by proposed spending cuts, in a letter to the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport.
Publicly-funded arts organisations are exhorted to extend participation in the arts by getting more people actively engaged in off-site and public realm programmes. Alongside, those in the business world are increasingly aware of the advantages of bringing artists ideas into development and regeneration projects. Here we highlight selected projects happening over the summer within the wider public domain.
Emilia Telese explores peer review funding for the arts within a holistic art and social environment.
Lara Farrar asks Has technology rendered the art critic obsolete or does it hold the key for the revival of the profession?
Artists organisation CARFAC played a pivotal role in last years Ottawa Visual Arts Summit where formal and informal gatherings brought artists, administrators, academics and volunteers together to set direction for the visual arts community in the coming years.
Kent, and the Kent Coast in particular, has become host to a series of contemporary art festivals and international events.
Further to a letter published in error in the December issue of a-n Magazine and our apology to Creative Foundation in the January issue, here Creative Foundation exercises its Right to Reply:
There is something about a ceramics conference that can send a shudder up the spine.
The 52nd Venice Bienniale that launches in June combines exhibitions of significant visual art from international artists with passeggiata and associated networking opportunities on the grandest scale for the throng of curators and artists who will assemble there. The main […]
Charles Avery, Henry Coombes, Louise Hopkins, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lucy Skaer and Tony Swain will represent Scotland at the 52nd Venice Biennale of Art.
Artist David Macintosh takes a personal look at collaborative working.
After close involvement in campaigning for the Artists Resale Right, painter Simon Black is warmly welcoming this new right.
Measures to give artists a share of the proceeds from the resale of their work became law in January.
From a-n Magazine May 1995 Minky Manky at South London Art Gallery showed, amongst others, work by Damien Hirst and Mat Collishaw, along with Tracey Emins Love Tent; Christopher Pauling won the £4,000 Mostyn Open purchase prize; Leo Fitzmaurice and […]
A plethora of shortlists and prize-winners have recently been announced, making April a bonanza prize month.
A-n Director of Programmes Susan Jones reviews artists jobs and opportunities over the years.
Sixtyone artists residencies in twentyfive countries have taken place since the inception of ACEs International Fellowship Programme in 2001. These have benefited more than 130 artists. A celebratory event for this initiative was held in July at Übertrendy Sketch Art […]
Mark Gubb visits Thanet in Kent to meet artists and hear about the cultural revival underway.
The £20,000 Beck’s Futures prize, that claims to represent the cutting edge of British art, has been won by painter Tim Stoner. His works are created through time-consuming process of colour-layering, building up oil and glaze onto linen to acheive […]
With a long history of working with artists, Habitat’s art programme provides the opportunity of prime viewing space that acts as a springboard for young artists.
Gemma de Cruz gives the rundown on what’s what at the 14th London Art Fair.
Wendy Murray gives the lowdown on support structures and organisations for artists in the Netherlands.