Adam Dant announced as official election artist
The House of Commons has selected Adam Dant as the nation’s official artist to document the processes and outcomes of the 2015 General Election.
The House of Commons has selected Adam Dant as the nation’s official artist to document the processes and outcomes of the 2015 General Election.
Taking the idea of evidence as its central theme, the 2015 edition of FORMAT International Photography Festival features the work of over 300 photographers in various venues across Derby, from churches to disused school buildings. But it’s the main exhibition at QUAD arts centre that has really stuck with Tim Clark.
This week’s selection includes the Whitechapel Gallery’s major exploration of Modernism in art, Caravan Gallery’s photographs of Britain, and a Suffragette-inspired exhibition in Colchester.
The visual arts education charity AccessArt is asking parents, teachers and ‘creative adults’ to think more about the importance of art education.
Nominations are now open for Artes Mundi 7, the Cardiff-based international art prize and exhibition which this year was won by Chicago artist Theaster Gates.
This week’s selection of member-posted shows and events includes exhibitions in Leeds, London and Penarth … plus a moving image festival in north east France.
A one-day symposium organised by Crate Studio and Project Space in Margate and University for the Creative Arts Canterbury is to explore the different ways artists make a living at a time of austerity.
Nominations for the 2015 Turner Prize, which this year takes place at Tramway, Glasgow, are open until 13 April.
The current deputy director of Madrid’s Prado museum has been announced as the new director of the National Gallery, London.
The Turner Prize nominated painter Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is the latest artist to select work from the V-A-C Collection, Moscow, as part of a series of shows at the Whitechapel Gallery. She talks about her choices – works inspired by nature and including paintings, photographs and a film.
a-n is supporting 21 artists to attend the 56th Venice Biennale preview week in May, through the latest round of its Go and see bursary awards scheme.
Finalists for the British Glass Biennale 2015, which forms a major part of the International Festival of Glass taking place in Stourbridge in May, have just been announced.
Staff and performers at Battersea Arts Centre pulled together over the weekend to ensure that two performances went ahead just 24 hours after a fire devastated large parts of the building, while a fund to save the performance and theatre space in south west London has already raised over £52,000.
For her new, multi-channel video installation, Melanie Manchot has connected remembered moments from the lives of 12 people in recent recovery from drug and alcohol misuse. Michaela Nettell talks to the artist about the making and showing of the work.
Edward Humphrey, a graduate of The Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, has won the Fleming-Wyfold Foundation Bursary at the RSA New Contemporaries in Edinburgh.
This week’s UK-wide exhibition selection ranges from a major show of work by Glasgow-based 2008 Turner Prize nominee Cathy Wilkes at Tate Liverpool, to Chinese painter Zhang Enli at Hauser & Wirth Somerset.
After 12 weeks of detailed work, forensic archaeologists have revealed what was lost, and what survived, following last May’s fire at Glasgow School of Art’s historic Mackintosh Building.
Five events by a-n’s members – posted onto the popular Events listings page – take us to Birmingham, Eastbourne, Manchester, London and Scarborough.
IdeasTap, the arts charity founded in 2008 by Peter De Haan, has announced that it is to close in June, prompting the launch of a campaign to try and save the organisation.
Artists including Jake and Dinos Chapman, Richard Wentworth and Jeremy Deller are contributing to an online fundraising auction for Milton Keynes Arts Centre by creating original work from a white ceramic plate.
A recent summit at Project Ability in Glasgow brought together support studios and learning disability artists from around the world for three days of art making, discussion and sharing of ideas. Emmie McKay reports on a conference with a difference that also included a residency by the artist Tanya Raabe-Webber.
The curator of the 56th Venice Biennale has revealed the 136-strong list of participating artists for the International Exhibition, including works by many high-profile names such as Steve McQueen, Jeremy Deller and Oscar Murillo.
Judith Carlton has been announced as the new director of CGP London as founding director Ron Henocq steps down after 30 years.
ISIS Arts in Newcastle has just launched Corners, a major European-wide collaborative residency and exhibition programme that will see 30 artists and producers arrive in the North East of England during March.
Graham Fagen, the Glasgow-based artist representing Scotland at this year’s Venice Biennale, has revealed details of his Scotland + Venice exhibition.