Irish artist Richard Mosse has been awarded the £30,000 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2014 for his haunting yet seductive work on the wartorn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Paying Artists Campaign is attracting comment across the visual arts as Arts Council England chair Peter Bazalgette tweets his support and others offer practical help and advice.
The recently opened Bury Sculpture Centre is sited in two large rooms that until recently were part of the Lancashire town’s central library. But while the move has prompted protests from local people, the centre’s instigator insists it is not a case of library services being cut to make way for a new art space.
Drawings inspired by images from magazines, books and the Internet, a sound and sculpture installation made in response to a gallery’s architecture, and private histories laid bare through a series of photographic compositions – this week’s selection includes exhibitions in Edinburgh, Wakefield and Manchester.
This month’s top ten Artists talking blogs sees the first, second and third slots remain the same, but with new entries by Simon Fell, Nick Kaplony and Niki Dennis there’s plenty of jostling for attention.
Newly commissioned works by leading contemporary artists feature in two-part fundraising exhibition for homelessness charity Crisis.
The headline show at this year’s House festival in Brighton & Hove is Yinka Shonibare’s installation of 10,000 reclaimed books at Brighton Museum and Gallery. But as our reviewer discovers, there’s also a satisfying journey of discovery to be had around the festival’s more unconventional spaces.
Creative Scotland have announced the recipients of their bursary programme for artists that seeks to provide time and resources for artists demonstrating ‘a high level of quality, imagination and ambition in their work.’
Quiet observations of passersby in Parnell Square, Dublin form the basis of Eamonn Doyle’s self-published, i, an odd but captivating take on the tradition of street photography.
a-n The Artists Information Company has appointed Jeanie Scott to be its new Executive Director.
The annual Cheltenham-based Open West competition and exhibition has announced four award winners across three prizes.
This year’s shortlist features Duncan Campbell, Tris Vonna-Michell, Ciara Phillips and James Richards.
Three more museums and galleries will create “long term visible homes for the Collection” and develop supporting digital activity to maximise its reach.
This week’s highlights include an attempt to save the endangered language of Polari, a show that uncovers how governments, intelligence agencies and corporations are using social media and drone technologies, and an exhibition that unpicks the enduring love affair between artists and nature.
To celebrate International Dawn Chorus Day on Sunday, the collaborative online artwork #dawnchorus365 will be creating its own virtual dawn chorus on Twitter. We find out more from one of the artists involved.
An international survey looking at the working and living conditions of socially-engaged, participatory and community artists launches today.
The Paying Artists Campaign, which will launch in May with its own designated website, intends to engage the arts-going public in the debate around artists’ value and fair remuneration for work.
Art students from Edinburgh, Leeds and Ghent form collective practice to deconstruct value systems of art in a fair of their own at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh.
Full programme details for the 7th Whitstable Biennale, featuring over 30 artists, have been announced.
The 48-page a-n Degree Shows Guide 2014 is the biggest yet, featuring more than 60 forthcoming shows across the UK, plus perspectives on this vital and exciting time from artists, curators, academics and graduating students. Available online via issuu it’s out now.
This May Day bank holiday weekend sees the launch of the Bristol Art Weekender, a four-day event that brings together 16 of the city’s visual arts venues, producers and artist-run initiatives for the first time. We talk to some of those involved and investigate the wider context for the upsurge in cultural activity in the city.
Eight international projects are in the running for the £30,000 award to create a future-facing artwork for Bristol and beyond.
This week we take a walk to Walsall for a career-spanning survey of Richard Long’s prints, head for London to explore themes of image manufacture and exchange with Andreas Gursky, and catch Dan Dubowitz and Alan Ward’s exhibition in Manchester charting the recent refurbishment of the city’s Central Library.
A new report published today by the researchers behind last year’s Rebalancing our Cultural Capital, reveals that Lottery funding of the arts in England is largely benefiting the wealthy to the detriment of the country’s poorest and least arts-engaged communities.
The Art Fund has announced the six finalists for this year’s £100,000 Museum of the Year prize, with art galleries dominating the shortlist.
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