This year’s Arts Development UK survey of local authority arts investment shows the number of authorities with no direct arts service continues to grow, while budgets are once again on the decrease in real terms.
The prize-winning Canadian author Margaret Atwood is to be the first writer to contribute to Scottish artist Katie Paterson’s 100-year artwork, Future Library.
Jessica Fulford-Dobson, Birgit Püve, Blerim Racaj and David Titlow have been named as the four shortlisted photographers for the £12,000 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize.
Fancy buying a GIF of a deflating Jeff Koons balloon dog sculpture? Artist Michael Green has just what you’re looking for and it’s a snip at $5800. And, he says, whoever buys it will be changing perceptions of the value of digitally-created art.
The Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller has pledged his support for a-n/AIR’s Paying Artists campaign in a statement that urges all publicly-funded galleries to pay fair fees to artists.
Sarah Perks, Cornerhouse/HOME’s head of visual arts, has taken up a new professorship at Manchester School of Art which aims to strengthen collaboration between academia and the arts in the city.
Following a cabinet meeting to discuss its future, Lancaster City Council has put forward a new proposal to move American artist Mark Dion’s The Tasting Garden to a new site in the city.
This week sees the return of Unlimited, the Southbank Centre’s festival celebrating the work of disabled artists. We talk to senior producer Jo Verrent and look at what the visual arts strand has to offer.
A report from Lancaster City Council that recommends the removal of Mark Dion’s The Tasting Garden, commissioned for 1998’s artstranspennine festival, will be discussed today by the council’s cabinet.
From artist-led adventures in Leicester to an exploration of a 19th century German educationalist in Bristol, we pick five must-see exhibitions from across the UK.
Berlin-based artist Michael Sailstorfer’s participatory artwork at the Folkestone Triennial, which invites the public to find buried gold on the town’s harbour beach, has had a busy opening weekend.
The third Folkestone Triennial has been attracting widespread media coverage thanks to artist Michael Sailstorfer’s buried gold bars on the town’s harbour beach. Dany Louise takes a tour of the town and finds many more artistic treasures in this intelligently curated festival of art in the public realm.
A new art colony and residency retreat, initiated by artist and priest Father Paul West and curated by Aid & Abet, is being pioneered in the Fenland market town of Wisbech.
Eileen Cooper, the Royal Academy’s Keeper, has been talking to Radio 4’s PM programme about discrimination against women in the visual arts.
A new home for Glasgow School of Art’s displaced fine art courses is being developed, following the fire that devastated the historic Mackintosh Building earlier this year.
The fourth b-side multimedia festival is set entirely on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, creating site-specific work that includes performance, installation and film work. Dany Louise talks to the director of this distinctive and nuanced ten-day event.
For more than 30 years, Joan Fontcuberta has been challenging the veracity of the photographic medium by staging one hoax, pseudo-documentary project after another. A new book, Trepat, sees the Catalan artist explore the improbable archive of the Spanish industrial powerhouse Josep Trepat. Tim Clark steps inside his world.
Vane and Breeze Creatives are taking over Durham’s Old Shire Hall for an art fair and auction, with proceeds going towards the creation of The Experimental Studio – a purpose-built work space for resident artists in Vane’s Newcastle space.
This week’s must-see shows include Frank Auerbach’s drawings and paintings at Tate Britain, Simon and Tom Bloor’s exploration of the post-war architecture of play at Sheffield’s Site Gallery – and a spot of artist-run golf in Croydon.
In less than four weeks, Scotland will be voting to decide whether to become an independent nation or remain part of the UK. Chris Sharratt speaks to artists and those working in the visual arts in the country and finds thinking that runs much deeper than nationalism, oil revenues and questions of currency.
A mass participation artwork by Manchester-based artist duo Sagar and Campbell has won the National Lottery Good Causes Award in the Best Arts Project category.
East Street Arts has developed the first live/work space for a socially-engaged practitioner in Leeds – and the job is open for applications.
Set to open in 2015, the University of Leicester has revealed designs for a new gallery at Embrace Arts.
The Jeff Koons retrospective at The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York has been disrupted by an artist writing an ‘X’ on the gallery wall in his own blood.
Former Edinburgh Napier graduate, Alicia Bruce, has been named as the recipient of the £5,000 RSA Morton Award 2014 towards researching and developing a new body of photographic work.
Alternative insights into the visual arts, with fast-paced news, comment, debate.
Get in touch
[email protected]
a-n offers a range of memberships for individuals and groups – from £38 annually – find out more.
Supported by:
