New temporary sculptures by Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan get a soft launch in Glasgow tomorrow, before heading north to the Hebridean islands of Skye and North Uist. Part of GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary in Scotland.
Eight artists have been selected for Devon open exhibition
With galleries in Zurich, London and New York and a stable of international artists, many will be familiar with art dealers Hauser & Wirth. The power couple’s decision to base their latest venture in the picturesque town of Bruton, Somerset, however, might take some by surprise.
For the second in our seasonal series, we’ve selected some stimulating books to keep you company over those long, hot summer days. So whether you’ll be relaxing on the beach, sipping cocktails by the pool, museum-hopping on a city break, or sheltering from the rain in a cosy tent – pack one of our holiday reads and enjoy that well-earned break!
This week’s selection includes two major survey shows – radical Russian Kazimir Malevich at Tate Modern, and French conceptualist Daniel Buren at BALTIC – plus a new film installation by Noémie Goudal at New Art Gallery Walsall and darkly humourous paintings by Moyna Flannigan at Glasgow’s GoMA.
London can be an expensive place to be an artist, but what are the advantages of basing your practice outside the capital, and how are those that choose to stay in London making it work? Pippa Koszerek reports from Standpoint Gallery’s recent MAP Symposium.
A new publication by US-based choreographer Andrew Simonet is a call to action for artists to harness their creative know-how to create an economically sustainable lifestyle.
Yorkshire Sculpture Park announced as winner of £100,000 prize.
a-n’s new look website is live, with a test phase encouraging members to ‘try out, share and feed back’.
Summer is here and what better way to celebrate than to avoid the sun and head straight to your local gallery. We’ve selected some of the best exhibitions coming up over the next few months, from large-scale blockbusters to smaller but no less important shows across the country.
Over the next seven days a series of newly commissioned digital artworks will be transmitted from the heart of Constable Country live and direct to people’s computers or mobile devices. We talk to Field Broadcast directors Rebecca Birch and Rob Smith about their latest project, Scene on a Navigable River; and to one of the commissioned artists, Adam Chodzko.
10 artists have been shortlisted for the seventh annual Film London Jarman Award, celebrating the legacy of Derek Jarman’s highly experimental and risk-taking approach to filmmaking.
Following last week’s announcement by Arts Council England of its new National Portfolio of funded organisations, Mark Robinson takes a closer look at the figures to find that, whilst the portfolio has many of the same strengths and weaknesses as the first one created in 2011, ACE has failed to significantly redress the funding imbalance between London and the regions.
This week’s selection takes in two career spanning survey shows – Giulio Paolini in London and Bruce McClean in Colchester – plus there are ‘earthy’ new works by William Cobbing in Middlesbrough, and a new film installation questioning the concept of freedom by Grace Schwindt in Birmingham.
The 8th Liverpool Biennial is a more modest affair than previous years with less visibility across the city, and while the core programme is deftly curated, it leans heavily on work from the past. Chris Sharratt reports.
“Self-critical, vital and engaging,” say the judges of this year’s John Moores Prize on the state of contemporary painting in Britain.
Following Tuesday’s NPO announcement by Arts Council England, we’ve been looking at the figures to get a clearer picture of who’s gained and who’s lost out.
Last week saw the official launch of Generation, a Scotland-wide celebration of the last 25 years of contemporary art in the country, with blockbuster summer shows opening in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Chris Sharratt reports.
This year’s Liverpool Biennial is the first that director Sally Tallant can really call her own, having arrived in Liverpool only a few months before the 2012 festival. Now with a new, earlier July start date and a refreshed approach, Laura Robertson finds out what has changed at the UK’s biennial of contemporary art.
Arts Council England has announced the 670 organisations that will make up its new National Portfolio of regularly-funded organisations. Included are some new additions, while 58 organisations leave the portfolio entirely.
a-n The Artists Information Company has successfully secured continued support from Arts Council England as part of its National Portfolio of funded organisations 2015-18.
Winners at the International Print Biennale Print Awards include Bob and Roberta Smith, who receives a £6,000 cash prize.
This week’s selection of must-see shows ranges from a stand-out Glasgow show of new work as part of Generation in Scotland, to something spooky going on in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire.
This week, London’s disability-led arts organisation Shape launches a new networking event to bring disabled and non-disabled artists together. We talk to programme coordinator Ben Fredericks about the project.
An open letter from artists in Manchester is calling on publicly-funded galleries to do more to support artists who live and work in the city.
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