Liz Hill reflects on a Warwick Commission debate which revealed the enthusiasm of the creative industries for better creative and cultural education in schools – and the barriers to making it happen.
Shadowing, an interactive work by New York and Treviso-based duo Jonathan Chomko and Matthew Rosier, has won Watershed’s Playable City Award.
New a-n Executive Director Jeanie Scott talks about growing up around contemporary art and explains why an organisation with artists at its heart “feels like home”.
This week is the final week of the Birmingham leg of Bill Drummond’s World Tour (2014-2025), London’s Foundling Museum celebrates the legacy of William Hogarth through the work of four contemporary artists, and Sheffield’s Site Gallery presents an exploration of the rave scene.
Among the 1200-plus works in this year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is a huge text painting by Bob and Roberta Smith, featuring the transcript of a harrowing interview with a doctor recently returned from Syria.
Arts Council England has announced that £180m of Lottery funds will be used for the core funding of NPOs involved in touring or working with children and young people.
The results for a-n’s Artists talking top ten blogs during May have just been published, with a new entry straight in at number five – and one prolific blogger still riding high.
Redeye’s National Photography Symposium, an annual gathering for ideas and discussion, takes place at the new Library of Birmingham this month. Redeye director Paul Herrmann explains what’s in store.
Artist-led festival Hackney WickED has announced it will provide a number of artist bursaries for its 2014 edition, following news that it has received Arts Council England funding for the first time.
The seventh Whitstable Biennale opened on Saturday with a variety of one-off performances and a series of new film commissions. Dany Louise reports from the small fishing town on the Kent coast.
Glasgow School of Art has announced that whilst this year’s MFA and Design and Architecture shows will go ahead as planned, special arrangements have been put in place for graduating BA Fine Art students following the recent fire.
Standpoint Gallery’s Mapping Art Practice Symposium invites practitioners and key thinkers to discuss the geographical and economic implications of art practice in the UK.
As part of an exhibition marking the 250th anniversary of William Hogarth’s death and featuring work by David Hockney, Yinka Shonibare MBE and Grayson Perry, Jessie Brennan is exhibiting a series of newly commissioned drawings of the soon to be demolished Robin Hood Gardens in Poplar. She talks about the project.
The shortlist for the inaugural East London Painting Prize didn’t represent the ethnic and cultural diversity of the area and, argues Gillian McIver, this reflects the UK art world’s stiflingly restrictive approach to artistic practice.
A new collaborative research study from Warwick University and a-n will explore the impact of artist-led initiatives on cultural value.
This week, we catch a New Wave of emerging artistic talent at Birmingham’s RBSA Gallery and explore national identity through Rachel Maclean’s timely exhibition at CCA in Glasgow. Plus there are shows in London, Exeter and Liverpool to enjoy, including a life-size reconstruction of Piet Mondrian’s Paris studio at Tate Liverpool.
The 7th Whitstable Biennale launches this weekend with a programme of performances, moving image, talks by and on the sea – and its own app.
Staff from Glasgow School of Art and Historic Scotland have begun the first stage of reconstruction work on the fire damaged western section of the Mackintosh building.
Charlotte Prodger has been announced as the recipient of the annual Margaret Tait Award, awarded to a Scottish or Scotland-based artist working in experimental film and/or moving image.
In just over one week, more than 1000 supporters have signed up to back a-n and AIR’s Paying Artists campaign.
Nathan Eastwood has been awarded the £10,000 East London Painting Prize for his work Nico’s Café.
The Visual Arts and Galleries Association is to close with immediate effect after its board decides its future is untenable.
German photographer Michael Schmidt has died just days after winning of the Prix Pictet photography prize 2014.
A generative artwork based on woodland ecosystems has launched in Thetford Forest, Suffolk, and will tour to three more forests in England throughout the summer.
Artist Sean Lynch, commissioner Mike Fitzpatrick and curator Woodrow Kernohan have been announced as the Ireland at Venice team for the 56th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale.
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